bonus genius
nounEtymology
Learned borrowing from Latin bonus genius (literally “good spirit”).
- learned borrowing from bonus genius
Definitions
A small wooden doll that is covered with a cape and made to vanish as part of a magic…
A small wooden doll that is covered with a cape and made to vanish as part of a magic trick.
- I'd pull out my cards and card-boxes, and the bonus genius or the wooden doll, and then I'd spread a nice clean cloth (which I always carried with me) on the table, and then I'd go to work.
- The trick of the little figure that vanishes, the Bonus Genius, as it was called, can be traced back to the seventeenth century, when this trick was recorded in one of the earliest magic books […]
A benevolent spirit or angel, seen as influencing a person's decisions in a beneficial…
A benevolent spirit or angel, seen as influencing a person's decisions in a beneficial way.
- I dailie and hourelie offend in thought, word, and deed, in a relapſe by mine owne weakneſſe and wilfulneſſe, my bonus Genius, my good protecting angel is gone, I am falne from that I was, or would bee, worſe and worſe, […]
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA