CIDE DICTIONARY
magical,
a. [L.
magicus, Gr. , fr. : cf. F.
magique. See
Magi.].
Magic circle, a series of concentric circles containing the numbers 12 to 75 in eight radii, and having somewhat similar properties to the magic square. -- Magic humming bird (Zoöl.), a Mexican humming bird (Iache magica) , having white downy thing tufts. -- Magic lantern. See Lantern. -- Magic square, numbers so disposed in parallel and equal rows in the form of a square, that each row, taken vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, shall give the same sum, the same product, or an harmonical series, according as the numbers taken are in arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonical progression. -- Magic wand, a wand used by a magician in performing feats of magic.
THESAURUS
magical
bewitched, bright, brilliant, cantrip, charismatic, enchanted, glamorous, glorious, hoodoo, illustrious, incantational, incantatory, lustrous, magian, magic, miraculous, necromantic, numinous, prodigious, radiant, resplendent, shaman, shamanic, shamanist, shamanistic, shining, sorcerous, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, talismanic, thaumaturgic, voodoo, voodooistic, weird, witch, witchlike, witchy, wizardlike, wizardly, wonder-working, wondrous
ROGET THESAURUS
magical
Sorcery
N
sorcery, occult art, occult sciences, magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy, demonology, demonomy, demonship, diablerie, bedevilment, witchcraft, witchery, glamor, fetishism, fetichism, feticism, ghost dance, hoodoo, obi, obiism, voodoo, voodooism, Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism, conjuration, bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism, od force, odylic force, electrobiology, clairvoyance, spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning, divination, sortilege, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae, hocus-pocus, magic,
magical, mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric, incantatory, charmed, Circean, odylic, voodoo.