Crossword clues for warlock
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Warlock \War"lock\, n. [OE. warloghe a deceiver, a name or the
Devil, AS. w?rloga a belier or breaker of his agreement,
word, or pledge; w?r covenant, troth (aki? to L. verus true;
see Very) + loga a liar (in comp.), le['o]gan to lie. See
3d Lie.]
A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp. [Written also
warluck.]
--Dryden.
It was Eyvind Kallda's crew
Of warlocks blue,
With their caps of darkness hooded!
--Longfellow.
Warlock \War"lock\, a. Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish. [R.]
Thou shalt win the warlock fight.
--J. R. Drak?.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wærloga "traitor, liar, enemy, devil," from wær "faith, fidelity; a compact, agreement, covenant," from Proto-Germanic *wera- (cognates: Old High German wara "truth," Old Norse varar "solemn promise, vow"), from PIE *were-o- "true, trustworthy" (see very, also Varangian). Second element is an agent noun related to leogan "to lie" (see lie (v.1); and compare Old English wordloga "deceiver, liar").\n
\nOriginal primary sense seems to have been "oath-breaker;" given special application to the devil (c.1000), but also used of giants and cannibals. Meaning "one in league with the devil" is recorded from c.1300. Ending in -ck (1680s) and meaning "male equivalent of a witch" (1560s) are from Scottish. Related: Warlockery.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The male equivalent of witch. 2 (context obsolete English) A traitor or oath-breaker. 3 (context obsolete English) The Devil, Satan; a demon. 4 (''originally Scotland and Northern UK'') A man in league with the Devil; a male magic-user, a wizard.
WordNet
n. a male witch or demon
Wikipedia
A warlock is a male practitioner of magic. The most commonly accepted etymology derives warlock from the Old English wǣrloga meaning "oathbreaker" or "deceiver".Old English wǽr-loʒa weak masculine (="traitor, enemy, devil, etc.") = Old Saxon wâr-logo weak masculine (=? "deceiver") (once, Hêliand 3817, in plural wârlogon applied to the Pharisees). The first element is probably Old English wǽr strong feminine (="covenant") = Old High German wâra (="truth"), Old Norse várar strong feminine plural ("solemn promise, vow") (cf. Vǽringi = "confederate, Varangian"); cf. Old Slavic. věra ("faith). This is a derivative from the adjective represented by Old English wǽr ("true") (once, Genesis 681; ? a. Old Saxon.) = Old Saxon, Old High German wâr ("true"): - Old Teutonic ''
- wǣro-'': - Pre-Teutonic ''
- wāro-'' = Latin vērus. The second element (an agent-n. related to Old English léoʒan ("to lie belie, deny") occurs also in the similar comps. áþ-loʒa, tréow-loʒa (Old Saxon treulogo), wed-loʒa (Middle English wedlowe), ("an oath-breaker"), etc. - Oxford English Dictionary, (online) 2nd Edition (1989) However, in early modern Scots, the word came to be used as the male equivalent of witch (which can be male or female, but is used predominantly for females). From this use, the word passed into Romantic literature and ultimately 20th-century popular culture. A derivation from the Old Norse varð-lokkur, "caller of spirits", has also been suggested; however, the Oxford English Dictionary discounts this due to the extreme rarity of the Norse word and the fact that forms without -k, consistent with the expected Old English etymology, are attested earlier than forms with -k.
Warlock, in comics, may refer to:
- Warlock (New Mutants), a cybernetic alien member of the New Mutants superhero team in Marvel Comics
- Warlock, a villain in the 1966 animated TV series The New Adventures of Superman
- Adam Warlock, a space-traveling superhero in Marvel Comics
- Maha Yogi, a Marvel Comics character who has also gone by the names Warlock and Mad Merlin
Warlock is a fictional character appearing in publications by Marvel Comics.
Warlock is a 1989 American cult horror film produced and directed by Steve Miner and starring Julian Sands, Lori Singer, and Richard E. Grant. It was written by David Twohy with a soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith. The story concerns an evil 17th century warlock who flees to the 20th century pursued by a witch-hunter.
The warlock is a playable character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It was introduced as a non-core base class in the supplemental book Complete Arcane for the 3.5 edition of Dungeons & Dragons. In 4th and 5th edition, the warlock is a core class.
Warlock is an original novel written by Andrew Cartmel and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice. The book is the middle novel in the "War trilogy", following on from Cat's Cradle: Warhead and concluding in Warchild. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Cartmel, appeared in Doctor Who Magazine #221.
Warlock were a German heavy metal band, assembled in 1982 with members of the underground bands Snakebite and Beast. The band gained popularity and some commercial success in Europe in the mid-1980s, due also to the personality and stage presence of lead vocalist Doro Pesch. Warlock supported on tour successful metal bands, such as W.A.S.P., Judas Priest, Dio and Megadeth.
By the end of the decade, Doro Pesch was the sole original member who remained in the band and she was forced to change the name to Doro for legal reasons. Doro, the band, continues to play several songs taken from the Warlock repertoire in their live shows.
The band has reunited for festival appearances and special occasions since 2003, under the name Warlock 1986.
Warlock is a 1959 film, released by Twentieth Century Fox and shot in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope. It is a Western adapted from the novel by Oakley Hall (screenplay written by Robert Alan Aurthur). Directed by Edward Dmytryk, it stars Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, and Anthony Quinn.
As in the earlier film Wichita, 1955, the conflict of the law with the outlaw runs parallel with the resentment of the town's own leadership. The supporting cast includes DeForest Kelley, who was a regular in Western films before becoming best known for Star Trek; Frank Gorshin, known for his role as the Riddler on the television series Batman; and Tom Drake, perhaps best known as John Truett, "The Boy Next Door", in Meet Me In St. Louis.
Warlock is a side-scrolling action video game based on the 1989 horror film series of the same title. It was released on Aug 15, 1995 through Acclaim Entertainment for the Genesis and Super NES platforms.
Warlock is a novel by author Wilbur Smith first published in 2001. It is part of a series of novels by Smith set to Ancient Egypt and follows the fate of the Egyptian Kingdom through the eyes of Taita, a multi-talented and highly skilled eunuch slave.
Warlock is an American western novel by author Oakley Hall, first published in 1958.
The novel is loosely based on characters and events that took place in the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
Hall's most famous novel, Warlock was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1958. Writer Thomas Pynchon praised it for restoring "to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded humanity" and showing "that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and can be snuffed out and assimilated into the desert as easily as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes Warlock one of our best American novels."
In 1959, it was made into a film, also called Warlock, starring Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, and Anthony Quinn.
Hall's 1978 novel The Bad Lands and 1986 novel Apaches are sequels to Warlock. The three together form the Legends West trilogy.
Warlock is the eighteenth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It originally aired on ABC on 27 January 1963. The episode was directed by Peter Hammond and written by Doreen Montgomery.
Usage examples of "warlock".
The weapon was called the horned blade, a creation of the mad warlock Azran Bedlam, and it was evil.
The responder studs on her Warlock costume fluttered angrily, as if she were deflecting a Bellipotent nanoweapon, or painful poison.
The Mallicos family was one of the ruling families in Norbane, and they refused to submit, demanding that the city stand firm against the Warlock Lord.
The Warlock Lord had the entire Mallicos family decimated except for Keltset, whom he brought to his fortress in the Knife Edge.
So he became Aubrey Mandrake, influenced in his choice by such names as Sebastian Melmoth, Aubrey Beardsley, and Peter Warlock.
Forget this folly of abducted visionesses and possessed warlocks, of suspicious aristocrats and moribund noblemen.
She found out from a wandering confabulator, a Jongleur from the Warlock Benevolent Mischief School, about Orphic reincarnation banks: and she had never forgiven the mad risk her primitivist parents had taken with her life.
It had been more than seventy years now since Shea and Flick Ohmsford had slipped from their home at the Shady Vale inn, barely escaping the monstrous winged Skull Bearer sent by the Warlock Lord to destroy them.
The highest names in France - the Princesse de Tingry, the Duchesse de Vitry, the Duchesse de Lusignan, the Duchesse de Bouillon, the Comtesse de Soissons, the Duc de Luxembourg, the Marguis de Cessac - scores of the older aristocracy, were involved, whilst literally hundreds of venal apothecaries, druggists, pseudo-alchemists, astrologers, quacks, warlocks, magicians, charlatans, who revolved round the ominous and terrible figure of Catherine La Voisin, professional seeress, fortune-teller, herbalist, beauty-specialist, were caught in the meshes of law.
Shirra has been sent for to carry her to the Kirk Aller steeple, whaur they confine the warlocks.
The appointment has largely been greeted with enthusiasm by the Wizarding community, though rumors of a rift between the new Minister and Albus Dumbledore, newly reinstated Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, surfaced within hours of Scrimgeour taking office.
There is a change from the pretty garden of the first scene, with its idyllic music, to the gathering place of witches and warlocks, high up in the Brocken, in the second.
China--and known to the Tibetan lama, the Buryat shaman of the steppes and to the warlock of the South Seas alike.
Warlock, There was the time Scale had ordered him to drive over two hundred klicks to a tiny hamlet in the foothills of the Darks, The long-armed man had been told to stay put, sit in the land wag for as long as it took for Scale to conduct his business, ostensibly a visit to this real high-class cathouse the ville boasted.
The situation was just this desperate: Clubfoot and the Warlock, two of the most powerful magicians left in the world, came to the conference at Prissthil on foot, leading a pack mule.