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Definition of Magical
1. Adjective. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers. "Wizardly powers"
Similar to: Supernatural
Derivative terms: Magic, Magic, Sorcery, Wizard, Wizard
Definition of Magical
1. Adjective. Of or relating to magic. ¹
2. Adjective. Enchanting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Magical
1. resembling magic [adj]
Medical Definition of Magical
1.
1. Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency.
2. Performed by, or proceeding from, occult and superhuman agencies; done by, or seemingly done by, enchantment or sorcery. Hence: Seemingly requiring more than human power; imposing or startling in performance; producing effects which seem supernatural or very extraordinary; having extraordinary properties; as, a magic lantern; a magic square or circle. "The painter's magic skill." (Cowper)
Although with certain words magic is used more than magical, as, magic circle, magic square, magic wand, we may in general say magic or magical; as, a magic or magical effect; a magic or magical influence, etc. But when the adjective is predicative, magical, and not magic, is used; as, the effect was magical. 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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magical
Literary usage of Magical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The Du Aurunci, to avert calamities, used magical power, but they were not native
Roman deities. The Romans were conscious of their common sense in these ..."
2. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"Can we term these operations magical because the operator regards them as such ?
... 13) argue that magical acts are not those which are recognised as such ..."
3. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the by Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (1904)
"TO PETER COLLINSON magical Circle SIR:—I am glad the perusal of the magical squares
... I now send you the magical circle. (See Plate V.) Its properties, ..."
4. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"Thoroughly congenial to it is that strain of magical or fairy lore which ...
The magical herb ' moly' given by Hermes to Odysseus ; Ino's magical veil which ..."
5. Bible and Spade: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the by John Punnett Peters (1922)
"In our excavations at Nippur we discovered a Jewish settlement from the houses
of which we took a large number of magical bowls. ..."
6. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"CHARMS ASD magical RITES In the spiritual environment of the Bagobo, one seems
aware of a somewhat exact apportionment of magical potentiality, ..."
7. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical by Benjamin Franklin (1840)
"SIR, magical Square of Squares.* According to your request, I now send you the
arithmetical curiosity, of which this is the history. ..."
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