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▪ I. wizard, n. and a.|ˈwɪzəd|
Forms: 5 wys(e)ard, -sar, 6 -sarde, -zard, wyssarde, wissard, Sc. weser, 6–7 wisard, (7 wiseard, wizer), 7–8 wizzard, (vizard), 6– wizard.
[late ME. wysar(d, f. wys, wis, wiss, wise a. + -ard. The pronunciation with voiced s (z) follows wisdom and wise.]
A. n.
†1. A philosopher, sage: = wise man 2. Often contemptuous. Obs.
The second quot. may belong to sense 2.
c1440Promp. Parv. 530/1 Wysard (K. wysar), sagaculus. a1500Chester Pl., Coming of Antichrist 371 Antechristus. Out on the [sc. Enoch], wyseard [v.rr. rasarde, roysarde], with thy wyles! For falcsely my people thou begyles. 1547Bauldwin Mor. Philos. i. i. (1550) A ij, The Grecians..haue therin taken great paynes, naming it first Sophia, and suche as therin were skilled Sophistes or wysardes. 1594[Greene] Selimus 214 Perhaps you thinke that now forsooth you sit With some graue wisard in a pratling shade. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. xii. 2 Therefore the antique wisards well inuented, That Venus of the fomy sea was bred. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster iv. v. (1905) 82 Albi. I haue read in a booke, that to play the foole wisely, is high wisdome. Gall. How now, Vulcan! Will you be the first wizard? 1676Doctrine of Devils 56 The Politicians, the Philosophers, the Wizers of the World. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 571 First the wily Wizard [sc. Proteus] must be caught, For unconstrain'd he nothing tells for naught. 1841W. Spalding Italy II. 99 Two young philosophers and wizards, called Phidias and Praxiteles.
2. a. A man who is skilled in occult arts; in later use, a man who practises witchcraft (the masculine correlative of witch n.2): = wise man 3.
† Occas. applied to a woman.
c1550Cheke Matt. ii. 1 When Jesus was boorn in beethleem.., lo then y⊇ wisards cam from th'est parties to Jerusalem. 1552[see wise man 3]. c1574G. Harvey Marginalia (1913) 163 Owr vulgar Astrologers, especially such, as ar commonly termed Cunning men or Artsmen. Sum call them wissards. 1596in Spalding Club Misc. I. 84 Sche is convick..as a common weser and socerer, and ordint to be brunt. 1606Holland Sueton. 237 Yet to none was he more spitefully bent than to wiseards and Astrologers. 1621[see white witch]. 1629Milton Nativity 23 The Star-led Wisards haste with odours sweet. 1674Hobbes Odyssey 73, I was forc't to come T' inquire of th' Wizard, old Tiresias, What the Fates say about my going home. 1713Swift Author upon Himself 7 Clowns on Scholars as on Wizards look, And take a Folio for a conj'ring Book. 1751Tryal T. Collet (ed. 3) 3 A large Mob..at Tring..declaring Revenge against Osborne and his Wife, as a Witch and a Vizard. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 942 In July, 1825, a man was ‘swam for a wizard’, at Wickham-Skeith, in Suffolk. 1851–61Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 107, I call myself a wizard as well; but that's only the polite term for conjurer; in fact, I should think that wizard meant an astrologer, and more of a fortune-teller. 1872Hardwick Trad. Lanc. 133 A wizard who had wrought sad havoc amongst his neighbour's cattle. 1897F. Thompson New Poems 113 To dower her, past an eastern wizard's dreams.
b. transf. and fig.: esp. a man who ‘does wonders’ in his profession: in recent use often trivially applied to an expert. Also freq. as financial wizard, a person skilled in making money, or in organizing financial affairs.
the Wizard of the North, Sir Walter Scott.
1620Shelton 2nd Pt. Don Quix. xxxi. 201, I haue heard my Master say, who is the very Wizard of Histories,..when he came [etc.]. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam vi. xxiii, The choicest winds of Heaven, which are enchanted To music, by the wand of Solitude, That wizard wild. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. (1871) II. 35 Gerard Dow, and other old Dutch wizards, who painted..such earthern pots that they will surely hold water. 1869R. Walton Random Recoll. Midl. Circuit 134 Fortunately the ‘Wizard of the North’ came upon the spot [sc. Kenilworth], and ‘Henceforth’ (as a modern historian has it) ‘the ruined place was to be sanctified [etc.]’. 1871L. Stephen Hours in Libr., Scott (1874) 218 Some reason for suspecting that the great ‘Wizard’ has lost some of his magic power. 1893Ladies' Home Jrnl. May 27/2 Sir Walter Scott was called ‘The Wizard of the North’. 1903Westm. Gaz. 31 Aug. 7/2 The wizard of yacht-building. 1952G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xix. 471 The eunuch, Hermeias, who began his career as a money-changer, was a kind of financial wizard and became very wealthy and powerful. 1967G. F. Fiennes I tried to run a Railway v. 58, I had energy..to be the financial wizard on the parochial church council. 1975Times 24 May 4/7 Judge Kennet..noted that Mr Tzour had been noted as a financial wizard.
c. A witch-doctor or medicine-man.
1845Darwin Voy. Nat. x. (1879) 214 Each family or tribe has a wizard or conjuring doctor. 1889Rider Haggard Allan's Wife 28 This man..had for some years occupied the position of Wizard-in-chief to the tribe.
†d. A professional conjuror. U.S. Obs.
1859L. Wraxall tr. J. E. Robert-Houdin's Mem. II. iv. 108 On my arrival in England, a conjuror of the name of Anderson, who assumed the title of Great Wizard of The North, had been performing for a long period at the little Strand Theatre. 1895N.Y. Dramatic News 14 Dec. 6/1 The wonderful record established at the California theatre by Hermann the Great..has finally been broken..[by] the wonderful wizard [himself].
3. attrib. and Comb., as wizard-craft, wizard-finder, wizard-man, wizard-swarm; wizard-woven adj.
1819Shelley Faust ii. 210 Wizard-swarms cover the heath all over. 1819Keats Otho iii. ii, If he flames longer in this wise I shall believe in wizard-woven loves. 1876H. Brooks Natal 334 The wizard-finder is not unfrequently turned to account by the stronger men of a tribe. 1891Kipling Life's Handicap 277 He went to Juseen Dazé, the wizard-man who keeps the Talking Monkey's Head. 1897Folk-Lore Mar. 53 Wizardcraft has the same ultimate origin as..the fairy belief.
B. adj.
1. Having the powers or properties of a wizard; that practises wizardry; hence gen. having magical or witching power or influence.
1579Hake Newes out of Powles (1872) F iiij b, O wylie wincking wyzard Woolues. 1649Hammond Serm. vi. Wks. 1684 IV. 506 That wizard flesh within us, that hath thus bewitch'd us to its false pleasures. 1679Dryden & Lee Œdipus iv. i. 55 Thou blind old wizard Prophet. 1746W. Collins Ode to Liberty Antistr. 2 Beyond the Measure vast of Thought, The Works, the Wizzard Time has wrought! 1747― Ode to Manners 11 Some Pow'r..At which the Wizzard Passions fly. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xlix, Or in some shadowy glen's romantic bower, Where wizard forms their mystic charms prepare. 1820Shelley Witch Atl. xxvi, All day the wizard lady sate aloof, Spelling out scrolls of dread antiquity. 1835Lytton Rienzi iii. ii, These wild and wizard extremes of life. 1897Daily News 14 June 5/3 The artificial production of diamonds by the wizard chemist of to-day.
2. a. Of, pertaining to, or associated with wizards or wizardry; hence gen. magic, enchanted, bewitched.
1638Milton Lycidas 55 Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream. c1796Roscoe in Currie Burns's Wks. (1800) I. 343 And let Despair, with wizard light, Disclose the yawning gulf below. 1808Scott Marm. iii. xx, Lord Gifford..tarried not his garb to change, But, in his wizard habit strange, Came forth. 1813― Trierm. iii. xxv, The wizard song at distance died, As if in ether borne astray. 1817Moore Lalla Rookh, Fire-worshippers ii. 221 Those tow'rs sublime,..Were sever'd from the haunts of men By a wide, deep, and wizard glen. c1820S. Rogers Italy, Interview 194 Tasso, Guarini, waved their wizard-wands, Peopling the groves from Arcady. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxxii, The wizard lightnings deeply glow. 1918N. Munro Jaunty Jock ii. 20 It was like as they were in some wizard fortress cut from rock.
b. slang. Excellent, marvellous, very good.
1922S. Lewis Babbitt xvii. 216 The Rev. Dr. John Jennison Drew..is a wizard soul-winner. 1932E. Waugh Black Mischief vii. 277 They..righted themselves and stopped dead within a few feet of danger. ‘Wizard show that,’ remarked the pilot. 1943J. B. Priestley Daylight on Saturday i. 1 The roofs are nicely camouflaged, and the stiff coloured netting..is a wizard show. 1954[see super a. 3]. 1958‘R. Crompton’ William's Television Show vii. 189 Gosh, that party of Ginger's last Christmas was wizard. a1966‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 25 How awfully wizard being at the theatre with you! 1974Times 17 Aug. 7/3 ‘How wizard!’ they said... ‘How absolutely super!’
3. Comb.: wizard-like a. = wizardly a.
1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede v, I know you are fond of queer, wizard-like stories.
Hence (nonce-wds.) ˈwizardess, a female wizard, witch; ˈwizardism, wizardry; † ˈwizardizing ppl. a., practising wizardry or witchcraft; ˈwizardship, wizardry.
1789H. Walpole Let. Hannah More 9 Aug., I wish my Macbethian *wizardess would tell me ‘that Cowslip Dale should come to Strawberry Hill’. 1866Cornh. Mag. Mar. 353 It was vaguely left to force the belief, that on this occasion our basket either carried a distinguished wizardess, or..a wondrous medium.
1682W. Richards Wallogr. 96 The study of *Wizzardism hath also been famous amongst them. 1726De Foe Hist. Devil ii. ix, Whether Wizardism made them ugly, that were not so before.
1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. xxi. 135 *Wisardizing Augurs, imposturizing South-sayers.
1882Mabel Collins Cobwebs II. 252 Vansit⁓tart had learned the secrets of *wizardship during his travels.
▸ Computing. A program that guides a user through a procedure by means of a sequence of simple on-screen instructions and options.
1992MacUser Nov. (verso front cover), We'd like you to meet Wizards, step-by-step guides that are designed to walk you through complex tasks. 1996Web Developer Nov.–Dec. 52/1 The program's report generation also includes a dozen standard reports and a wizard for generating customized reports. 2003Internet Advisor Nov. 40/3 Check the Add to current Web box and click OK, then let the wizard walk you through database and page setup.
▪ II. wizard, v. rare.|ˈwɪzəd|
[f. prec. n.]
†1. trans. To call ‘wizard’. Obs. nonce-use.
1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. iii. 111 If M. Chamber had considered that Aristotle and the Grecians had their chiefe knowledge from these nations that were Astrologers, he could neuer (for shame) haue wisarded them. Ibid. vi. 179.
2. To practise wizardry upon, to bewitch; to drive away as by magic.
1898A. Austin Lamia's Winter-quarters 61 The last lingering trails of mist were gradually wizarded away. 1900Folk-Lore (1901) June 177 If yah be a wizard, wizard me.
So ˈwizarding vbl. n., the practice of wizardry, witchcraft, or magic art.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 337 Those..cheating Arts of Manteia or Wizarding, with which the world always hath been..abused. 1924Blackw. Mag. Nov. 650/1 When the people think that the wizard half of him is not sufficiently potent in spells, they get to wizarding on their own account. |