English words for 'witchcraft, sorcery'
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- the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
- Magic derived from evil forces, as distinct from good or benign forces; or magic performed with the intention of doing harm.
- (figuratively, by extension) A technology, process, etc., that is mysterious, esoteric; anything which appears to be almost magic to those who do not understand it.
noun
- the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
- conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying
- Divination involving the dead or death.
- (Internet) Synonym of necroposting.
- Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.
noun
- one who practices magic or sorcery
- someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
- A person who astounds; an enigma.
- A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
- An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.
- A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.
- (sometimes derogatory) A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts.
noun
- one who practices magic or sorcery
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field.
- (Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon, or someone who has earned similar rights through gameplay; a user in wizard mode.
- (computing) A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.
- (incel slang, sometimes humorous) A virgin over the age of 30 who does not socialize and thus cannot find a sexual partner.
- Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
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verb
noun
- (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
- a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas
- A spell performed in the practice of the magic craft; an item associated with such a spell.
- A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft.
- A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean.
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noun
- (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
- a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas
- A sash worn with a kimono.
- A strip of paper looped around a book or other product.
- Alternative form of obeah.
noun
- A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
- (uncountable, slang) Sleep paralysis.
- A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
- (derogatory) An ugly old woman.
- (derogatory) An evil woman.
- (Northern England) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
- A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
- A marshy hollow, especially an area of peat lying lower than surrounding moorland, formed by erosion of a gully or cutting and often having steep edges.
- A fury; a she-monster.
- The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
- (US, slang, sometimes derogatory) A woman.
- an ugly evil-looking old woman
- eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
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noun
adj
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- hidden and difficult to see
- Esoteric.
- Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
- (medicine) Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected.
- (medicine): not visible, but chemically detectable.
verb
noun
- A witch.
- (rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
- (chemistry) Clipping of uranium hexafluoride.
- (climbing) a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.
- An evil spell or curse.
- (computing, informal) Clipping of hexadecimal.
- A hexagonal space on a game board.
- an evil spell
verb
adj
noun
- Arcane and obscure language of occult rituals or mystical practices.
- A use of the mystical term ‘abracadabra’, supposed to work as part of a healing charm or a magical spell; any spell or incantation making use of the word.
- Mumbo jumbo; obscure language or technicalities; jargon.
- gibberish and nonsense
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verb
- control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft
- induce into action by using one's charm
- attract; cause to be enamored
- protect through supernatural powers or charms
- (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to ensorcel or exert a magical effect on.
- To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
- To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
- To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
noun
- a verbal formula believed to have magical force
- (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third most massive of all quarks
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- something believed to bring good luck
- The collective noun for a group of goldfinches.
- (particle physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
- (graphical user interface, Microsoft Windows) An icon providing quick access to a command or setting.
- The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
- (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
- A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
- An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
- (often in the plural) The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
- A flock, group (especially of finches).
noun
- (now chiefly historical) A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them.
- (by extension) An attempt to find and punish or harass a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds.
- (by extension) A public or political campaign or investigation which smears a person or group.
- searching out and harassing dissenters
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
noun
- the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
- Magic derived from evil forces, as distinct from good or benign forces; or magic performed with the intention of doing harm.
- (figuratively, by extension) A technology, process, etc., that is mysterious, esoteric; anything which appears to be almost magic to those who do not understand it.
noun
- the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
- conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying
- Divination involving the dead or death.
- (Internet) Synonym of necroposting.
- Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.
noun
- one who practices magic or sorcery
- someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
- A person who astounds; an enigma.
- A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
- An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.
- A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.
- (sometimes derogatory) A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts.
noun
- one who practices magic or sorcery
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field.
- (Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon, or someone who has earned similar rights through gameplay; a user in wizard mode.
- (computing) A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.
- (incel slang, sometimes humorous) A virgin over the age of 30 who does not socialize and thus cannot find a sexual partner.
- Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
adj
verb
noun
- (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
- a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas
- A spell performed in the practice of the magic craft; an item associated with such a spell.
- A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft.
- A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean.
verb
noun
- (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
- a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas
- A sash worn with a kimono.
- A strip of paper looped around a book or other product.
- Alternative form of obeah.
noun
- A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
- (uncountable, slang) Sleep paralysis.
- A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
- (derogatory) An ugly old woman.
- (derogatory) An evil woman.
- (Northern England) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
- A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
- A marshy hollow, especially an area of peat lying lower than surrounding moorland, formed by erosion of a gully or cutting and often having steep edges.
- A fury; a she-monster.
- The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
- (US, slang, sometimes derogatory) A woman.
- an ugly evil-looking old woman
- eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
verb
noun
adj
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- hidden and difficult to see
- Esoteric.
- Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
- (medicine) Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected.
- (medicine): not visible, but chemically detectable.
verb
noun
- A witch.
- (rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
- (chemistry) Clipping of uranium hexafluoride.
- (climbing) a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.
- An evil spell or curse.
- (computing, informal) Clipping of hexadecimal.
- A hexagonal space on a game board.
- an evil spell
verb
adj
noun
- Arcane and obscure language of occult rituals or mystical practices.
- A use of the mystical term ‘abracadabra’, supposed to work as part of a healing charm or a magical spell; any spell or incantation making use of the word.
- Mumbo jumbo; obscure language or technicalities; jargon.
- gibberish and nonsense
intj
noun
noun
- (now chiefly historical) A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them.
- (by extension) An attempt to find and punish or harass a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds.
- (by extension) A public or political campaign or investigation which smears a person or group.
- searching out and harassing dissenters
verb
verb
- control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft
- induce into action by using one's charm
- attract; cause to be enamored
- protect through supernatural powers or charms
- (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to ensorcel or exert a magical effect on.
- To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
- To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
- To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
noun
- a verbal formula believed to have magical force
- (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third most massive of all quarks
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- something believed to bring good luck
- The collective noun for a group of goldfinches.
- (particle physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
- (graphical user interface, Microsoft Windows) An icon providing quick access to a command or setting.
- The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
- (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
- A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
- An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
- (often in the plural) The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
- A flock, group (especially of finches).