Noun

1. A spell or incantation; a magic trick.

   • 1976: For one thing, I've no intention of distributing cantrips and costly crucifixes to every rapable woman in the Parish of St Magloire. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, Something Nasty in the Woodshed (Penguin 2001, p. 422)
   • 1984: ‘And when I say now the power of the name Jesus makes you whole, I indulge in no petty mountebank’s cantrips.’ — Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady