Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Scots A magic spell; a witch's trick.
- n. Chiefly British A deceptive move; a sham.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A charm; a spell; an incantation.
- n. A piece of mischief artfully or adroitly performed; a trick.
Wiktionary
- n. A spell or incantation; a trifling magic trick.
Etymologies
- Origin Unknown (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Once inside, I dried myself with a cantrip and for the first time in three years, I marked the threshold with my musk.”
“~ The wizard drops a daze cantrip on the other one so the cleric can grapple him without suffering an AOO, and the cleric then holds down the gobby while the rogue lays down the coup de grace.”
“Taking the idea from Pathfinder that cantrips and orisons can be cast ‘at-will’ (pretty much), all the at will powers can be become a cantrip or orison; or we can give other classes a new name – i.e. ‘maneuver’”
“I took the little cantrip and tucked it into the band of my jeans where my belt would keep it pressed against me.”
“He couldn't use a cantrip to unlock the door from outside, either, even if he knew the right spell, because the locks were counterspelled against just that.”
“A scant quarter-chime later, Lycaelon Tavadon strode down the main thoroughfare of Armethalieh, his heavily embroidered black-on-silver Arch-Mage robes belling behind him with the force of his passage, and the wide-brimmed, pointed hat that matched them held on to his head by a clever cantrip.”
“Speaking was only a way of catching her attention, to key the prepared cantrip that would place her into a trance so that he could do the work that must be done.”
“Lycaelon frowned, and marshaled a small cantrip, one foolishly relied upon far too often by Student'Apprentices: Knowing That Which Is Written.”
“Lycaelon smiled, radiating charm-a simple enough cantrip, really, among the many every High Mage always kept in readiness for situations such as this.”
“This cantrip allows the caster to cause any single animal within 20' to make the loudest vocal sound of which it is capable.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cantrip’.
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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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Dungeons and Dragons
Would you like to join our party? We just started a new campaign.
For more general lists about role-playing games, see brandelion's RPG and lampbane's Tales of the Dread Gazebo.dungeons and dragons, d&d, elf, orc, halfling, drow, giant, troll, kobold, rpg, d20, human and 100 more...
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majic
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Gygax's Glossary
In hesitant beginning of a tribute to the man who—before Nabokov or Joyce or anyone 1000 times more exalted—infected me with a fever for language.
psionic, prismatic, gelatinous, dweomer, initiative, kobold, geas, shambling, gibbering, cuirass, halberd, ioun stone and 4 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Illuminated Manuscript
words for the bespoke
midheaven, moth-fly, yea-forsooth, ontil, coxcomb, vulnerary, landhelgisgæslan, beasthood, deviltry, triolet, diablerie, titil and 107 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 547 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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not the sum of their parts
words formed as the combination of two or more other words, but which have a meaning unrelated to either of the constituent words
earwig, ladyfinger, pantywaist, dovetail, eavesdropper, blackmail, greenhorn, mango, carpet, penny farthing, farthingale, damage and 118 more...
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SS Profess
pretend, pedantry, syllogism, palaver, flummox, anamorphosis, mishpocha, juggins, panjandrum, desultor, antichthon, antediluvian and 5 more...
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magik
magic, wizardry, scorcery, necronomicon, ensorcelled, cantrip, pentagram, shaman, numerology, tarot, séance, oracle and 30 more...
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Bushel
Heir to Beachcomb, words that I like.
http://wordie.org/lists/beachcombbushel, peck, kismet, hyperborean, votive, parsnip, murmuration, fleuron, gossamer, clementine, opal, dollop and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cantrip.
fbharjo as opposed to may-trip?(in any month) Sep 11, 2012
knitandpurl "Julia had logged another couple of telephone-pole paint blobs, one of which she'd stopped and studied quite closely using some kind of visual cantrip that he hadn't caught because she hadn't wanted him to catch it—she actually hid it with one hand as she cast it with the other."
The Magician King by Lev Grossman, p 128 Aug 22, 2011
yarb And indeed Ellen was sitting there very stiffly, turning her hands together and looking down on them as if she despised them for their cantrips.
- Rebecca West, The Judge Jul 29, 2009
whichbe 1. (Scot.) A magic spell, a witch's trick.
2. (Chiefly British) A deceptive move; a sham.
3) (Fantasy) A spell associated with words, as opposed to a spell associated with a hand gesture.
(From WWFTD) Jun 6, 2008
treeseed Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Pronunciation: \ˈkan-trəp\
Function: noun
Etymology: probably alteration of caltrop
Date: 1719
1chiefly Scottish : a witch's trick : spell
2chiefly British : hocus-pocus Feb 11, 2008