Meaning of bonus genius | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small wooden doll that is covered with a cape and made to vanish as part of a magic trick.
2. A benevolent spirit or angel, seen as influencing a person's decisions in a beneficial way.
   obsolete

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Examples

“I'd pull⟳ out my cards and card-boxes, and the bonus genius or the wooden doll, and then I'd spread⟳ a nice clean⟳ cloth (which I always carried with me) on the table, and then I'd go to work⟳.”

“The trick⟳ of the little figure⟳ that vanishes, the Bonus Genius, as it was called, can be traced back to the seventeenth century, when this trick⟳ was recorded in one of the earliest magic books […]”

“I dailie and hourelie offend in thought, word, and deed, in a relapſe by mine owne weakneſſe and wilfulneſſe, my bonus Genius, my good protecting angel is gone, I am falne from that I was, or would bee, worſe and worſe, […]”

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