Word Meanings - SORCERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info)

Additional info about word: SORCERY

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. (more info) OF. & F. sorcier a sorcerer, LL. sortiarius, fr. L. sors, sortis, a

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SORCERY)

• Divination
• Prediction
• sorcery
• magic
• witchcraft
• augury
• omens
• Enchantment
• Witchcraft
• necromancy

Related words: (words related to SORCERY)

• MAGIC; MAGICAL
  1. Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency. 2. Performed by, or proceeding from, occult and superhuman agencies; done
• MAGICALLY
  In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic.
• SORCERY
  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. (more info)
• WITCHCRAFT
  1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits. 2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak.
• PREDICTIONAL
  Prophetic; prognostic.
• ENCHANTMENT
  1. The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation. After the last enchantment you did here. Shak. 2. The
• AUGURY
  1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination. 2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself
• DIVINATION
  1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an
• NECROMANCY
  The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantment. See Black art. This palace standeth in the air, By necromancy placèd there. Drayton. (more
• MAGIC
  A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment,
• MAGICIAN
  One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.
• PREDICTION
  The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy. The predictions of cold and long winters. Bacon. Syn. -- Prophecy; prognostication; foreboding; augury; divination; soothsaying; vaticination.
• DISENCHANTMENT
  The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted. Shelton.