nonmagical
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[edit]nonmagical (not comparable)
- Not magical.
- 1923, The Billboard 1923-09-22: Volume 35, Issue 4[1], Prometheus Global Media, page 52:
- In any other way, is Magic decadent when there are more magic acts on the stage today than there ever were before; and there are more amateurs, more magic supply houses, and even editors of nonmagical magazines, thinking magic very interesting, spend their time and money in publishing tricks and ilinsions for their readers?
- 1924, Crawford Howell Toy, Introduction to the History of Religions[2], Harvard University Press, page 247:
- These doubtless have a natural nonmagical basis — the necessity of making good crops and protecting private property would be recognized everywhere, and would call forth legal enactments ; but it was inevitable, in certain communities, that such enactments should be strengthened by supernatural sanctions such as those offered by the conception of taboo..
- 1929, The Psychoanalytic Review 1929-01: Volume 16, Issue 1[3], Guilford Publications, pages 36-37:
- He can be given new habits and new values, aimost, I was going to say, a new personality. His tensions will be resolved in the nonmagical sense of being subjected to analysis, intellectualization, dramatic objectification, and most important of all, they will be eased off by a redistribution of the objects of attention. Variety of interest, flexibility in thinking, an absorption in life, the cultivation of more humor, will be so many psychological vehicles for carrying off and systematically redistributing his original funds of hysterically concentrated tension. The analyst will also become an important object of attention and to a large extent of the transference of tensions.
- 1954, University of California, University of California Publications in Classical Philology[4], Berkeley and Los Angeles University of California Press, page 28:
- We must also remember that Seneca has just given, rather elaborately and rhetorically, a sample of the way in which Socrates could have conferred a benefit on Archelaus by explaining to him the perfectly natural, nonmagical, character of an eclipse of the sun.