jugglery

  • 51dweomercraft — noun /dwiːmə(r)ːkɹɑːft,dwiːmərːkɹæft/ Magic; magical arts; jugglery. There was an ominous tendency among people who considered themselves upper class to dismiss the art he practiced as well as all the other elements of Dweomercraft. It was… …

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  • 52captivation — noun The act of captivating or the state of being captivated. But the test of an oration is not only its immediate effect; there are tricks of elocution, a jugglery of manner, and even a personal captivation that so win the senses as to bewilder… …

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  • 53Compatibilism — Schopenhauer said: Man is free to do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills. The Compatibilist calls this limited freedom free will . This page discusses a philosophical view on free will. See other uses of the term Compatibility.… …

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  • 54Curious arts —    (Acts 19:19), magical arts; jugglery practised by the Ephesian conjurers. Ephesus was noted for its wizard and the Ephesian spells; i.e., charms or scraps of parchment written over with certain formula, which were worn as a safeguard against… …

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  • 55machination — I noun artful dodge, artifice, cabal, collusion, conspiracy, contrivance, covin, crafty design, crafty device, crafty plan, design, dodge, dolus, foul play, intrigue, jugglery, machina, maneuver, manipulation, plot, ploy, ruse, scheme, stratagem …

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  • 56subterfuge — I noun artifice, camouflage, chicane, chicanery, concealment, counterfeit, deception, deverticulum, device, dodge, duplicity, elusion, evasion, excuse, fabrication, falsehood, fib, fiction, finesse, forgery, guise, imposture, jugglery, latebra,… …

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  • 57pettifoggery — I noun artfulness, artifice, bamboozlement, cheating, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, corruption, cozenage, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, dishonesty, dodgery, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, foul play, fraud, fraudulence,… …

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  • 58ruse — I noun art, artifice, bait, blind, camouflage, cheat, chicane, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, craft, crafty device, deceit, deception, decoy, delusion, design, disguise, dodge, dolus, duplicity, evasion, feint, fetch, finesse, flimflam, fraud …

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  • 59Tredget — This interesting surname, dating from the late 12th Century, derives from the old French word tresgiet or treget , and the middle English treget or trigit , which could mean a juggler , but at this period is more likely to describe people who… …

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  • 60art — Synonyms and related words: American, Art Nouveau, Ashcan school, Barbizon, Bauhaus, Bolognese, British, Cobra, Dadaism, Dutch, Fauvism, Flemish, Fontainebleau, French, Gothicism, Italian, Italian hand, Mannerist, Milanese, Modenese, Momentum,… …

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