Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Magic practiced for evil purposes or in league with supposed evil spirits; witchcraft.
Wiktionary
- n. idiomatic Magic derived from evil forces, as distinct from good or benign forces; or magic performed with the intention of doing harm.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
Examples
“Vra-Sulkorig, I urge you to ask the prince if more of the witch’s black magic is poised to shield our Lord Admiral’s fleet from the wrath of Achardus’s son. “”
“Until this stage was reached, politics would remain bloody dilettantism, mere superstition and black magic ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘black magic’.
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EN - coloured collocations
The bad news: There are possibly tens of thousands of colour collocations in English. The good news is that the pictures retrieved by Wordnik from flickr will probably match the terms this time.
black currant, black eye, black pudding, blue baby, Blue Beard, blue bell, blue berry, blue blood, Blue Book, blue bottle, blue cheese, blue chip and 280 more...
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black phrases/words
Tolkien worked in the black section
of the dictionary at one point in his lifeblack-about, Black Act, black afraid, black Africa, black African, black amber, Black America, Black American, black and blae, black and blue, black angry, black ant and 578 more...
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I Am A Starfish. I Speak With Paint.
List title totally stolen from she. Right, the stock entry for this list should be a two-word phrase where one of the words denotes a colour; even better if the expression has some metaphoric value...
black dog, tangerine dream, orange roughy, blue moon, blackguard, white house, purple rain, grey nurse, green thumb, yellow fever, sacre bleu, palo verde and 159 more...
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If it's magic...
magic, Magic, magic wand, magic carpet, magician, Magic Johnson, magic hour, magical realism, Magic: The Gathering, Magic Kingdom, Magic Eye, Magic Bus and 94 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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The Marriage of Pretty Words
A list of two words or more, which were singularly pretty or found to be pleasing, but sounds even better when used together!
sweet tooth fairy, prancing peony, coy boy toy, sour puss, paper tiger, whipped buttercream, dandy lion, clothes horse, scare crow, beauty parlor, pantomime horse, shark bait and 68 more...
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Malcolm-Hex
Words where 'black' has a negative connotation.
The awareness of this has been more publically discussed since the 60's, however with the 2008 presidental race, I am curious if any of ...black sheep, blacklist, blackmail, blackball, black hat, black mark, black day, black magic, black market, blackhole, black monday, black comedy and 65 more...
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candy cane heroin
sex, sexual, branden, rozz, candy cane, candy canes, cotton candy, may day, may, taurus, heroin, love and 134 more...
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Black or White
black and white, snow-white, coal-black, blacksmith, whitesmith, blackball, white-box testing, Blackberry, white pages, black book, white paper, blacklist and 107 more...
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chromatic phrases
blue movie, brown study, purple prose, rosy scenario, golden mean, eminence grise, white nights, bronze age, silver bullet, orange juice, black death, technicolor yawn and 188 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1695 more...
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The name of the rose(bush)
Rose varieties
easy cherry pie, a caen la paix, eglantine, a capella, a fleurs gigantes..., a shropshire lad, abba dabba, faint heart, fair bianca, faberge, fairy changeling, fair play and 43 more...
Tweets
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