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magery

Etymology 1 n. The practice of a mage; magic, sorcery. Etymology 2

n. (obsolete spelling of maugre English) (14th-15th c.)

Usage examples of "magery".

The first time I saw Aris use magery, it was to heal, and he gave his own strength to it.

If Aris, whom Gird trusted, said he had the healing magery, surely Gird would let him learn to use it.

He did not want to come between Gird and Aris, though he would have liked to convince Gird that his own magery had some good purpose.

He wanted to see Aris there, using his healing magery, teaching others how to heal.

The Lord Gavdat, who practices the study of magery, has remained behind as well, because he is in the midst of important prognosticatory calculations that he feels must not be interrupted even for so important a gathering as this.

Of the timbre of the elves who had so delighted him in Fin Panir, but of opposite flavor, this magery mocked all he had admired.

They would have to build a trail up from the desert below, and another into the western canyons and out to the town, but with magery they could do it easily in a few hands of days.

He sent one of those skilled in cutting stone by magery down to carve guardposts where the Rosemage wanted them.

Deep inside, where dimness should have faded to blackness, a faint glow showed that Arranha had no qualms about using his magery here.

Whatever magery the iynisin used had killed them as well, drawing them into strange unhorselike shapes as it worked, leaving the dead bodies hardly recognizable, the very hairs of mane and tail stiff as thorns.

And if we had better records of the early mageborn invasion, we might know more about what happened to the magery, and why the transfer pattern is graved in the floor of the High Lord’s hall.

We can’t go haring off to the cave now, and you can’t get there by magery without those patterns… can you?

Luap, would the Council of Marshals approve the use of healing magery in someone other than Aris?

The Marshals know, in their minds, that a child with Aris’s talent must learn to use it, just as a child must learn any adult skill, with many mistakes in the process—but in practice, they so distrust all magery that, without Gird, I suspect they would forbid it.

What Im thinking now is that its a place no one without magery could stumble upon, a place where the mageborn could learn to use their powers safely, without risking harm to others, and without a chance to use them wrongly: there are no peasants to rule.