Is 'magic' ever really used as a verb?
"He magicked the ball"
"I love to magic around the house"
"Do you magic for a living?"
Not even in slang, not even in bad fantasy novels.
Outside Indo-European languages, compare:
Hbrug 00:18, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Could somebody translate this word to ukrainian for me?--Oksana Yulia (talk) 17:35, 17 September 2012 (UTC) Oksana Yulia
Since Isaac Bonewits has a Bachelor of Arts in Magic and Thaumaturgy; University of California, Berkeley he qualifies as an expert in the field. "Here’s the three ways I do it in the current (1989) edition of my first book, Real Magic:
1) A general term for arts, sciences, philosophies and technologies concerned with (a) understanding and using various altered states of consciousness within which it is possible to have access to and control over one’s psychic talents, and ::(b) the uses and abuses of those psychic talents to change interior and/or exterior realities.
2) A science and an art comprising a system of concepts and methods for the build-up of human emotions, altering the electrochemical balance of the metabolism, using associational techniques and devices to concentrate and focus this emotional energy, thus modulating the energies broadcast by the human body, usually to affect other energy patterns whether animate or inanimate, but occasionally to affect the personal energy pattern.
(3) A collection of rule-of-thumb techniques designed to get one’s psychic talents to do more or less what one wants, more often than not, one hopes." - Bonewits, Isaac (2005 Authentic Thaumaturgy pg 18 --174.99.238.22 16:45, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
Magic(al): The two words compete with one another in all the main senses, ‘relating to magic’, ‘produced by or as if by magic’, and ‘wonderful’, although in certain fixed expressions such as magic carpet only magic is used. When used in its descriptive role, magic still behaves more like a noun than an adjective, which is to say that it cannot be preceded by very, extremely, etc., and does not have a comparative.
What "descriptive role" is the author referring to, and as opposed to what other(s)? --Backinstadiums (talk) 19:04, 23 July 2021 (UTC)