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Sorcerous

Sorcerous \Sor"cer*ous\, a. Of or pertaining to sorcery.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sorcerous

1540s, from sorcery + -ous.

Wiktionary
sorcerous

a. 1 Similar to, or involving, sorcery. 2 Using sorcery.

WordNet
sorcerous

adj. possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers" [syn: charming, magic, magical, witching(a), wizard(a), wizardly]

Usage examples of "sorcerous".

Alemans were trying to drive them into the alkahest pits still bubbling from the First Sorcerous War.

Many such served him, simple earthy divels and divels of the air and of the water, held by him in thrail by sorcerous and artificial practices, coming and going and doing his will.

He forged ahead of the other two, his eyes alert for solid, fightable enemies, while Rerin kept his senses open for sorcerous danger.

Smoke or fog was rolling into the room in great swirling clouds, lit with the hyaline colors of sorcerous energy.

The pain of remembering who Li was had come closer to killing him than the sorcerous arrow that impaled his heart, but the remorse, like his passion, was cooled in him now.

The sorcerous Schools, like all the Great Factions, ceaselessly skirmished with spies, assassinations, trade sanctions, and delegations of outraged envoys.

Kurald Emurlahn played ceaselessly within the tree-ringed circle, rippling half-shapes dancing along the pictographs, the sorcerous emanations awakened by the propitiations that had accompanied the arrival of dusk.

Yet I find I prefer knowing that I will make my way unencumbered by sorcerous aids or obstacles.

Klittichom has always treated Boolean with contempt but has never tried to get sorcerous and political action against him.

We are still in the process of developing the sorcerous systems that will enable us to ensure minimal sylphic disturbance as the Garuda Bird proceeds on its mission.

Fisher, I have been informed that you are investigating the sorcerous byproducts Demondyne deposits in the Devonshire containment area.

Kingman, the only set left surviving from the catastrophes that had enveloped the Aegean world, yet this man had no partner with which to dance through the sorcerous twistings of the labyrinth.

It reminded me, fittingly enough, of the air raid warnings that would help mark the start of the Third Sorcerous War.

Some kind of infection had seeped in from the physical world beyond, was corrupting every sorcerous path he attempted.

Then he discovered some manner of sorcerous power over matches in the wind, lighted a cigarette, and signalised his sense of refreshment by smoothly edging the indicator needle up toward the eighty notch, where he held it stationary until Lanyard and Liane with one accord begged him to consider their appetites.