Meaning of mysto-magic | Babel Free

Definitions

Something involving superstition, magical thinking, or clevery trickery; voodoo, hocus-pocus.

dated, informal, rare, uncountable

Examples

“Or, put differently: the deeper art goes, the more meaningless it should become. For superficial matters, sense is valid, but for the most profound levels of human life, nonsense, mysto-magic, and something approaching mumbo-jumbo are the valid mediums of expression.”

“That there is such a revelation; that it is not mysto-magic or mechanical mental telepathy, but that it has a history; and that this history moves progressively towards a great climax, has been the understanding and the experience of literally millions of Christians for over two thousand years.”

“In one of the paradoxes of democratic government, the main strength of seizure as a device for settling labor disputes is its very cumbersomeness, its legal mysto-magic, its flummery. Simplicity is not always a prime virtue in a democracy.”

“By fusing the mysto-magic of the mysteries with the secrecies of Jewish wisdom, the Judaism of Paul and paganism became one, so that time is fulfilled, not in waiting for the Messiah, but in the mystery of the sacraments.”

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