Hocuspocus: alternatives and connections

One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the ma…

Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.

Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.

Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of…

To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.

The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural mea…

A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.

Pretended sleep.

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.

Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departe…

The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjur…

A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, i…

That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.

Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend.

Pretended; feigned.

A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, fal…