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"ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178",
"text": "They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate \"psychicism\", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.",
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"That which cannot be precisely defined or put into words."
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"That which defies description; indescribable."
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"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "nedefinovatelný"
},
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"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "ondefinieerbaar"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "määrittelemätön"
},
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"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "epämääräinen"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "indéfinissable"
},
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"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "undefinierbar"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "nieokreślony"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "nieuchwytny"
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"_dis1": "3 97",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "neopredelimyj",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "неопределимый"
}
]
}
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "nedefinovatelný"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "ondefinieerbaar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "määrittelemätön"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "epämääräinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "indéfinissable"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "undefinierbar"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "nieokreślony"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "nieuchwytny"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "neopredelimyj",
"sense": "that which defies description",
"word": "неопределимый"
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"word": "indefinable"
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