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"text": "Where is the necessity of this provision in the Constitution? […] Can anyone believe that we, by any amendments of ours, by any of our scribbling on that parchment, by any amulet, any legerdemain—charm—Abrecadabra—of ours can prevent our sons from doing the same thing—that is, from doing as they please, just as we are doing as we please? It is impossible. Who can bind posterity?",
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"ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, page 335",
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"word": "abracadabra"
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"sense": "used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed",
"word": "abracadabra"
},
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"sense": "used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed",
"word": "აბრაკადაბრა"
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"sense": "used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed",
"word": "αβρακαδάβρα"
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"sense": "used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed",
"word": "ἀβρακαδάβρα"
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"sense": "used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed",
"word": "アブラカダブラ"
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "mangamangaiatua"
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"sense": "used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed",
"word": "hokus pokus"
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"code": "fa",
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"roman": "aji maji lâtaraji",
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"word": "اجی مجی لاترجی"
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"word": "абракадабра"
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"code": "sv",
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{
"code": "te",
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"word": "అబ్రకదబ్ర"
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"code": "vi",
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"word": "úm ba la xì bùa"
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"english": "Write on a piece of paper the word abracadabra, repeating it below while taking away the last letter, so that a single letter is further and further lacking, until it has the shape of a cone: remember to surround the [patient's] neck with linen with the paper hanging from it.",
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.