Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who practices sorcery; a wizard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, one who casts lots; one who divines or interprets by the casting of lots; hence, one who uses magic arts in divination or for other ends; a wizard; an enchanter; a conjurer.
- noun A fish of the family Nettastomidæ, found in the deep sea, having a fragile body and a thin skin charged with black pigment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun fantasy, folklore A
magician orwizard , sometimes specifically male.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who practices magic or sorcery
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So with regard to the idea that Vaudois comes from Vaudes, a sorcerer, it would be more correct to say that the term sorcerer was one applied by the inhabitants of the plains to those who were Vaudois, or hill-men, under the notion that the inhabitants of such localities practised sorcery.
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In the reports of early travelers and missionaries no special mention is made of the Midē´, the Jes´sakkīd´, or the Wâbĕnō´, but the term sorcerer or juggler is generally employed to designate that class of persons who professed the power of prophecy, and who practiced incantation and administered medicinal preparations.
The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 Walter James Hoffman 1872
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In the reports of early travelers and missionaries no special mention is made of the Midē´, the Jes´sakkīd´, or the Wâbĕnō´, but the term sorcerer or juggler is generally employed to designate that class of persons who professed the power of prophecy, and who practiced incantation and administered medicinal preparations.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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In the description, she doesn't use the term sorcerer and prefers the term wizard.
Gaming Nexus 2008
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In the description, she doesn't use the term sorcerer and prefers the term wizard.
Gaming Nexus 2008
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In the description, she doesn't use the term sorcerer and prefers the term wizard.
Gaming Nexus 2008
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In the description, she doesn't use the term sorcerer and prefers the term wizard.
Gaming Nexus 2008
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In the description, she doesn't use the term sorcerer and prefers the term wizard.
Gaming Nexus 2008
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In the description, she doesn't use the term sorcerer and prefers the term wizard.
Gaming Nexus 2008
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In the description, she doesn't use the term sorcerer and prefers the term wizard.
Gaming Nexus 2008
oroboros commented on the word sorcerer
SorcErER
May 7, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word sorcerer
This spelling 'sorcerer' is strongly preferred to 'sorceror' (over 20:1 on raw Google hits), and the -or doesn't occur in BNP and isn't even mentioned in the OED as an alternative (though it does occur in the quotations with a sic against it).
That actually surprises me: I thought it was one of those where fluctuation was more standard, as with adviser/advisor, conjurer/conjuror, imposter/impostor.
March 24, 2009