Crossword clues for sorcery
sorcery
- Merlin's stock-in-trade
- Inquisition target
- Harry Potter's forte
- Potter's field?
- Activity in which spelling counts?
- Subject studied at Hogwarts
- The belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
- Voodoo
- It's witchcraft
- Repentant, involving church in witchcraft
- Black magic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sorcery \Sor"cer*y\, n.; pl. Sorceries. [OE. sorcerie, OF. sorcerie, fr. OF. & F. sorcier a sorcerer, LL. sortiarius, fr. L. sors, sortis, a lot, decision by lot, fate, destiny. See Sort, n.] Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.
Adder's wisdom I have learned,
To fence my ear against thy sorceries.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "witchcraft, magic, enchantment; act or instance of sorcery; supernatural state of affairs; seemingly magical works," from Old French sorcerie, from sorcier "sorcerer, wizard," from Medieval Latin sortiarius "teller of fortunes by lot; sorcerer," literally "one who influences fate or fortune," from Latin sors (genitive sortis) "lot, fate, fortune" (see sort (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. magical power; the use of witchcraft or magic arts.
WordNet
n. the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world [syn: black magic, black art, necromancy]
Wikipedia
Sorcery most often refers to:
- another name for Magic (paranormal)
- Witchcraft, the use of supernatural, magical faculties
Sorcery may also refer to:
- Maleficium (sorcery), a Latin term meaning "wrongdoing" or "mischief" used to describe harmful magic
Sorcery is the debut album by Kataklysm released in 1995 by Nuclear Blast. It was later re-issued with The Mystical Gate of Reincarnation as bonus tracks.
Sorcery is an album by Jack DeJohnette featuring Bennie Maupin, John Abercrombie, Mick Goodrick, Dave Holland and Michael Fellerman recorded in 1974 and released on the Prestige label. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "A lot of rambling takes place on this interesting but erratic CD reissue... While one admires DeJohnette's willingness to take chances, this music has not dated well".
The U.S. rock band Sorcery were from Hollywood and Los Angeles, California circa 1976 to 1987.
Sorcery (also known as Lord of Sorcery in Japan) is a 2012 video game, co-developed by The Workshop and SCE Santa Monica Studio. It is published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 utilizing the PlayStation Move and will be one of the first of the second generation Move titles.
Sorcery (1808 – after 1832) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won the classic Oaks Stakes at Epsom Downs Racecourse in 1811. In a racing career which lasted from April 1811 to July 1814 the filly ran twenty-six times, winning twelve races and finishing placed on eleven occasions. Sorcery won the Oaks on her third racecourse appearance and went on to win other important races including the Epsom Gold Cup, the Trial Stakes, two editions of the Oatlands Stakes, a King's Plate and several match races. After her retirement from racing she became a successful broodmare, being the dam of the 1828 Epsom Derby winner Cadland.
Usage examples of "sorcery".
And then she, by virtue of whose sorceries this whole land is drugged and enchanted, is such a bold slut that she will build a Sacred Arbour even, and will fill it full of religious enchantment for you rather than lose hold of you.
It was no sorcery, nor a monster, but a bull aurochs twice the size of the largest ox Saban had ever seen: a creature of huge muscle, black hide, sharp horns and beady eyes.
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.
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.
Whatever sorcery the Chancellor had bound him with, it had weakened this night, and Benet was hers for a time again.
Chazen Saril, Ritsem Caid or anyone else that you suborned sorcery as the only way of driving out these savages.
But he was so deep into unsavory pacts with agents of sorcery and magic that a mage-killer like Cime might be exactly what he needed.
My connection with these worthy men had always been the talk of the town, and as all were agreed that it could not be explained on natural grounds, it was deemed to be the effect of some sorcery exercised by me.
Inspired, no doubt, by the mysterious daily production of the information and by the aura of sorcery and the occult that has always enveloped cryptology, he called it magic.
Captain Vlamos, who was one of those who came to take her to the Censor, and he told me that the Censor has an accusation of sorcery against my mistress, which is not only a defamation of her character, but it places her in gravest danger with no means to refute such a charge.
Do you think your sorcery can stand up to theirs, when they Work the fae as naturally as you breathe?
She used her knowledge of sorcery to please her own fanc y or to benefit her kingdom, but never to injure anyone else.
Sunlight danced against her eyelids as Fayne worked his sorcery on her body.
I have heard that there lives a great viking in Salten fiord who is skilled in sorcery.
Though the mighty and the learned consider them fools, their possession of the Gnosis, the sorcery of the Ancient North, commands respect and mortal envy.