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US
/ˌɪˈɫuʒənəst/
]
[ UK /ɪlˈuːʒənˌɪst/ ]
[ UK /ɪlˈuːʒənˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
- someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
- a person with unusual powers of foresight
How To Use illusionist In A Sentence
- Stage magicians and conjurers are of course illusionists, not magicians in the historical context of the word.
- Like many of the illusionist's decisions, he used a bit of abracadabra to make the purchase.
- He becomes less a magician and more and more not only an illusionist of increasing power, but one bent on tormenting his audience rather than entertaining them.
- Schematically shaded at its lower and right sides, the golf ball is illusionistically modeled not in the round but in relief, as is often the case with the apples and oranges of Cezanne.
- There were fine nuggets of legerdemain, courtesy of the illusionist Paul Kieve.
- Méliès's illusionist tricks were wildly popular and influential - and frequently pirated.
- An illusionist has had to abandon plans to climax his UK tour at Epsom Playhouse because staff are apparently fed up with the repeated failure of magic acts.
- Illusionist and escapologist Shahid Malik broke free from a straitjacket while suspended upside down from a burning rope.
- Brunner, the illusionist, had dazzled his audience with an elaborate shell game. CORMORANT
- Neither the shallowness of the illusionistic space nor the interlocking of forms has anything to do with the limitations of the 'optical track'.