Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Scots A magic spell; a witch's trick.
- noun Chiefly British A deceptive move; a sham.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A charm; a spell; an incantation.
- noun A piece of mischief artfully or adroitly performed; a trick.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
spell orincantation ; a trifling magictrick .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Once inside, I dried myself with a cantrip and for the first time in three years, I marked the threshold with my musk.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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Once inside, I dried myself with a cantrip and for the first time in three years, I marked the threshold with my musk.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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A scant quarter-chime later, Lycaelon Tavadon strode down the main thoroughfare of Armethalieh, his heavily embroidered black-on-silver Arch-Mage robes belling behind him with the force of his passage, and the wide-brimmed, pointed hat that matched them held on to his head by a clever cantrip.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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~ The wizard drops a daze cantrip on the other one so the cleric can grapple him without suffering an AOO, and the cleric then holds down the gobby while the rogue lays down the coup de grace.
D&D 4e’s Out… And It’s Awful. Here’s Why « Geek Related 2008
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Speaking was only a way of catching her attention, to key the prepared cantrip that would place her into a trance so that he could do the work that must be done.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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He couldn't use a cantrip to unlock the door from outside, either, even if he knew the right spell, because the locks were counterspelled against just that.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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I took the little cantrip and tucked it into the band of my jeans where my belt would keep it pressed against me.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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Taking the idea from Pathfinder that cantrips and orisons can be cast ‘at-will’ (pretty much), all the at will powers can be become a cantrip or orison; or we can give other classes a new name – i.e. ‘maneuver’
D&D 4e’s Out… And It’s Awful. Here’s Why « Geek Related 2008
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I took the little cantrip and tucked it into the band of my jeans where my belt would keep it pressed against me.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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I took the little cantrip and tucked it into the band of my jeans where my belt would keep it pressed against me.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
treeseed commented on the word cantrip
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Pronunciation: \ˈkan-trəp\
Function: noun
Etymology: probably alteration of caltrop
Date: 1719
1chiefly Scottish : a witch's trick : spell
2chiefly British : hocus-pocus
February 11, 2008
whichbe commented on the word cantrip
1. (Scot.) A magic spell, a witch's trick.
2. (Chiefly British) A deceptive move; a sham.
3) (Fantasy) A spell associated with words, as opposed to a spell associated with a hand gesture.
(From WWFTD)
June 7, 2008
yarb commented on the word cantrip
And indeed Ellen was sitting there very stiffly, turning her hands together and looking down on them as if she despised them for their cantrips.
- Rebecca West, The Judge
July 29, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word cantrip
"Julia had logged another couple of telephone-pole paint blobs, one of which she'd stopped and studied quite closely using some kind of visual cantrip that he hadn't caught because she hadn't wanted him to catch it—she actually hid it with one hand as she cast it with the other."
The Magician King by Lev Grossman, p 128
August 23, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word cantrip
as opposed to may-trip?(in any month)
September 12, 2012