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sorcerer

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Aladdin dispatched this evil sorcerer as well. ▪ Aladdin refused, so the sorcerer cast a spell to close up the cave again. ▪ In time, the wicked sorcerer returned to Persia to claim the lamp and tricked the princess into giving ...

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. one who practices magic or sorcery [syn: magician , wizard , necromancer ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "conjurer of evil spirits," displacing earlier sorcer (late 14c.), from Old French sorcier , from Medieval Latin sortarius "teller of fortunes by lot; sorcerer" (also source of Spanish sortero , Italian sortiere- ; see sorcery ). With superfluous ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sorcerer \Sor"cer*er\, n. [Cf. F. sorcier. See Sorcery .] A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician. --Bacon. Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers. --Ex. vii. 11.

Usage examples of sorcerer.

Prince or Sorcerer, Armiger or Tragamor, Demon or Doyen, which of the endless list you are.

The sorcerer pulled the blue velvet sack of kaokao leaves from his belt and tossed it to Ath, who caught it neatly in one hand.

I think we may lay it down as a general rule that at a certain stage of social and intellectual evolution men have believed themselves to be naturally immortal in this life and have regarded death by disease or even by accident or violence as an unnatural event which has been brought about by sorcery and which must be avenged by the death of the sorcerer.

In the second place it marks a step in social progress because when the blame of a death is laid upon a ghost or a spirit instead of on a sorcerer, the death has not to be avenged by killing a human being, the supposed author of the calamity.

But as he tells us that all deaths are believed by these savages to be an effect of sorcery, we may conjecture that the sham fight is intended to delude the ghost into thinking that his death is being avenged on the sorcerer who killed him.

Narrinyeri of avenging the death of their friends on the guilty sorcerer.

But no tentacles took hold of the brash young sorcerer, nor did the Supreme Warrior bespeak him with fresh threats.

The Sorcerer Quoron When the bodiless head looked at her, Niamh froze with ghastly horror.

By now I am a crackling sorcerer of grub and booze, of philtres and sex-spells.

There was another woman out there who identified Cai with his sorcerer.

While his assistant performed the censing, the Master Sorcerer stood immobile over the body, a long wand of glittering crystal in each hand, his arms flung wide to provide the psychic umbrella which would protect the corpse from being affected by the magical ritual that John Quetzal was enacting.

We have seen the warlike green-men, and the knowledgeable Pharials and the Clambs who departed Earth for the stars, as did the Merioneth before them and the Gray Sorcerers still earlier.

Boday and Crim emerged and fell in behind her, and none looked to see what the sorcerers were doing.

CC: The word brujos, the Spanish conception, it could be translated in various ways, in English could render a sorcerer, witch, medicine man or herbalist or curer, and, of course, the technical word shaman.

In Hoffmann this is a learned old Jew of Smyrna, exegetist of the Koran, in Gogol a sorcerer in the tradition of Ukrainian poetry, in Dostoyevsky a mystic sectarian.