شَعْوَذَةٌ
Root: شعذ
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شَعْوَذَةٌ
Legerdemain, or sleight-of-hand, and false miracles, and fascinations, or fascination, or a kind of play, like
سِحْر, making a thing to appear different from what it really is, or showing a man what has no real existence: or making what is false to assume the form of what is true: as also شَعْبَذَةٌ: vulgarly termed شَعْبَثَةٌ.
2 Also Quickness: or lightness, or agility, in any affair.
3 It is not a word of the language of the people of the desert.
2 Also Quickness: or lightness, or agility, in any affair.
3 It is not a word of the language of the people of the desert.
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