2020-11-02 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด M - Magic & magical
2020-11-02
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด M - Magic & magical
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง Magic = ‘MAJ-ik’
ออกเสียง magical = ‘MAJ-i-kuhl’
Dictionary.com
SYNONYM STUDY FOR MAGIC
Magic, necromancy, sorcery, witchcraft
imply producing results through mysterious influences or unexplained powers.
Magic may have glamorous and attractive connotations;
the other terms suggest the harmful and sinister.
Magic is an art employing some occult force of nature:
A hundred years ago television would have seemed to be magic.
Necromancy is an art of prediction based on alleged communication with the dead (it is called “the black art,” because Greek nekrós, dead, was confused with Latin niger, black): Necromancy led to violating graves.
Sorcery, originally divination by casting lots, came to mean supernatural knowledge gained through the aid of evil spirits, and often used for evil ends:
spells and charms used in sorcery.
Witchcraft especially suggests a malign kindof magic,
often used against innocent victims:
Those accused of witchcraft were executed.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
WN: magic
Since magical lacks a "k,"
it only makes sense (thought Noah Webster, and as far back as his 1806 dictionary) that magic too would go without a "k"—hence no magick in American English.
The same reasoning gave us also our public and traffic spellings, as well as others.
The words gimmick and haddock and maverick have no k-less relation (there is no gimmical, haddocal or maverical) to argue away their "k's."
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Sympathetic magic
noun : magic based on the assumption that a person or thing can be supernaturally affected through its name or an object representing
Sympathetic magic posits that the relationship between a person or thing and something that represents that person or thing can be exploited by those with numinous intents.
The term dates to the early 20th century, when Western anthropologists were trying to develop a universal definition of magic:
Heir to the eighteenth-century Positivist assumption of "laws" governing nature and society, [British anthropologist James] Frazer said that sympathetic magic was of two types. "Homeopathic" magic works according to the "law of similarity"—things or actions that resemble other things or actions have a causal connection. "Contagious magic" obeys the "law of contact"—things that have been either in physical contact or in spatial or temporal association with other things retain a connection after they are separated.
— Phillips Stevens, Jr., The Skeptical Inquirer, November/December 2001
Collins COBUILD English Usage
Magic - magical
'magic' used as a noun
Magic is a special power that occurs in children's stories
and that some people believe exists.
It can make apparently impossible things happen.
Janoo-Bai was suspected of practising magic.
2. 'magic' used as an adjective
You use magic in front of a noun to indicate that
an object or utterance does things or appears to do things by magic.
...a magic potion.
...the magic password.
3. 'magical'
Magical can be used with a similar meaning.
...magical garments.
...a magical car.
You also use magical to say that something
involves magic or is produced by magic.
...medieval magical practices.
...a little boy who has magical powers.
4. another meaning
Magic and magical can also be used to say that
something is wonderful and exciting.
...a truly magic moment.
The journey had lost its magical quality.
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
Magic & magical
As a noun, magic refers to producing results
through mysterious influences or unexplained powers.
It involves the control by persons skilled in magic of supernatural agencies and the forces of nature.
In view of this meaning,
magic seems loosely used and overused to refer to
occurrences that might correctly
be labeled “unusual,” “effective,” or “spectacular.”
“His piano playing was magic” and
“When she smiled, the effect was magic”
are examples of such misuses of a powerfully charged word.
As an adjective, magic means much the same as magical,
but here again exaggeration is usually apparent:
“The lovers spent a magical (or magic) night” and
“This baritone has a magic (or magical) range to his voice”
are example of overemphasis.
Recommendation: use both adjectives sparingly
and always place magicdirectly before the word it modifies:
“magic number,” “magicsquare,” “magic lantern,” “magic artistry.”
If this can’t be done, use magical.
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