Hocus pocus" appears to have been a mock Latin expression first used as the name of a juggler or conjurer.
Or may be he's a juggler; a rope-dancer; and plays off his hocus pocus on people's pockets?
Cut portmanteau-straps; waylay old women; hocus pocus; any thing you like.
And to this hour the fakir on the street corner uses that opening expression, "Hocus pocus.
Hocus Pocus, or Searching for the Philosopher's Stone.
Hocus Pocus, or Searching for the Philosopher's Stone, ii.
Early in the seventeenth century appeared "Hocus Pocus," the most widely copied book in the literature of magic.
The trick first appears in print in various editions of "Hocus Pocus," twenty in all, starting with 1635.
This is fully as reliable a book as the earlier "Hocus Pocus" books, but it is not so generally known.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hocus pocus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
