SORCERER, SORCERESS, SORCERY
ADJECTIVES
► SORCEROUS dealing in or exercising sorcery → 1550
► VENEFICAL practising or associated with malignant sorcery or witchcraft → 1584 obs.
► VENEFICIAL practising or associated with malignant sorcery or witchcraft → 1658 obs.
► VENEFICIOUS practising or associated with malignant sorcery or witchcraft → 1646
► VENEFICOUS practising or associated with malignant sorcery or witchcraft → 1657
NOUNS
► CRAFT magic; witchcraft; sorcery → 1000 obs.
► FASCINATION the casting of a spell; sorcery, enchantment, an instance of this, a spell, an incantation → 1605 obs.
► MALEFICE a wicked enchantment; sorcery → c1374 arch.
► PRESTIGIATION sorcery or magic; deception or delusion by such practice; conjuring, prestidigitation → 1550
► PRESTIGION sorcery or magic; deception or delusion by such practice; conjuring, prestidigitation → 1635 obs.
► SIGALDRY enchantment, sorcery → a1225 obs. rare
► VENEFICE the practice of employing poison or magical potions; the exercise of sorcery by such means → c1380 obs.
► VENEFY the practice of employing poison or magical potions; the exercise of sorcery by such means → 1616 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BRUJA ► BRUJO a witch, a sorcerer; one who practices black magic → 1940 Amer. dial.
► CACO-MAGICIAN an evil magician or sorcerer; one versed in the black art → 1656
► GALDRAGON a sorceress, a witch → 1821 Sc. obs.
► JUGGLER one who works marvels by the aid of magic or witchcraft, a magician, a wizard, a sorcerer; one who plays tricks by sleigh of hand; a performer of legerdemain; a conjurer → 1100
► KAHUNA a priest of the native Hawaiian religion, a wise man, a minister; now esp. a sorcerer → 1873 Hawaii
► LUCKY a witch, a sorceress → 1827 Sc. obs.
► MAGHA a sorceress → 1609 obs.
► MAGUS one skilled in Oriental magic and astrology; an ancient magician or sorcerer → 1621
► OB a wizard, magician, sorcerer, ventriloquist → 1659 obs.
► OBEAH-MAN a man who practices obeah or Obi (a kind of pretended sorcery or witchcraft practised by the Blacks in Africa); a Black sorcerer → 1764
► OBEAH-WOMAN a woman who practices obeah or Obi (a kind of pretended sorcery or witchcraft practised by the Blacks in Africa); a Black sorceress → 1840
► PYTHONER a conjuror, a sorcerer; a soothsayer → c1475 obs.
► SORCER a sorcerer; a wizard, a magician → 1300 obs.
► SORCERIST a person who practises sorcery; a sorcerer → 1624 obs.
► SORTILEGE a person who practises divination or sorcery → 1483
► TALISMAN a sorcerer, a magician → 1646 obs.
► TYLYESTER an enchantress, a sorceress → 1400 obs.
► VARLET a sorcerer, a magician, a warlock, a wizard → 1703 obs.
► VENEFIC one who practises poisoning as a secret art; a sorcerer or sorceress; a wizard or witch → 1651 obs.
► WALKYRIE a witch, a sorceress → a1023 obs.
► WARLOCK one in league with the Devil and so possessing occult and evil powers; a sorcerer, a wizard → a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► WISE-WIFE a witch, a sorceress → 1808 Sc.
► WISE WOMAN a witch; a sorceress; a fortune teller → 1808
VERBS
► KAHUNA to practice sorcery; to cast a spell → 1938 Hawaii
► SORCERIZE to transform by sorcery → 1866