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Magic :: Magic (a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc..

Duplicity :: Duplicity (n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold before one; to extend.

Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to..

Pretendingly :: Pretendingly (adv.) As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.

Diviner :: Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means..

Consequential :: Consequential (a.) Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4..

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.

Corival :: Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal.

Catharist :: Catharist (n.) One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

Affected :: Affected (p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.

Connive :: Connive (v. t.) To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see.

Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..

Pseudo- :: Pseudo- () A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively..

Divinity :: Divinity (a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.

Spoliation :: Spoliation (v. t.) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title..

Countenance :: Countenance (v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.

Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.

Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.

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