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Definition of Illusionist

1. Noun. A person with unusual powers of foresight.

2. Noun. Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience.

Definition of Illusionist

1. n. One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.

Definition of Illusionist

1. Noun. One who works with illusion or sleight of hand. ¹

2. Noun. One who deceives by magical or mystical means. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Illusionist

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Illusionist

1. One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Illusionist

illupi illupis illure illured illures illuring illusion illusion of doubles illusion of movement illusionable

illusional illusionary illusioned illusionism illusionisms illusionist (current term) illusionistic illusionistically illusionists illusionless

illusionlike illusions illusive illusively illusiveness illusivenesses illusorily illusoriness illusorinesses illusory

Literary usage of Illusionist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Patriotism and Popular Education ...: The Whole Discourse Being in the Form by Henry Arthur Jones (1920)
"... war will be that the Government will seize our marble halls for its prosecution, and will drive us and our great illusionist to find shelter elsewhere. ..."

2. The Grammar of Philosophy: A Study of Scientific Method by David Graham (1908)
"When, to take a case, a lunatic persists in regarding himself as a poached egg, is he any worse than an illusionist who insists on regarding his boots, say, ..."

3. A Magician's Tour, Up and Down and Round about the Earth: Being the Life and by Harry Kellar (1890)
"On the other hand, the illusionist was equally confident tnat no one could * fix' him, and with such directly conflicting opinions some bets were booked on ..."

4. The Philosophical Review by Sage School of Philosophy, Cunningham, Gustavus Watts, 1881-, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Jacob Gould Schurman (1897)
"Schopenhauer is not such an arch-illusionist after all ! ... Besides, if Schopenhauer is an illusionist, Professor Caldwell comes pretty near being one ..."

5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"The eminent illusionist, the REV. MR. IGNATIUS COZENS, the Oxford Wizard, will shortly deliver a lecture at the above Histrionic Temple, in which he will ..."

6. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"The battle-piece from the Arch of Constantino (PI. iv) is, in his view, a work of this nature, 'in which the illusionist style seems to open all its ..."

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