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ˈsortileger Now rare.
Also 5 sortyloger, -leger.
[See prec. and -er. The form in -loger is based upon the med.L. sortilogus for sortilegus.]
One who divines, chooses, or settles by drawing lots or otherwise; a diviner, fortune-teller.
c1400Apol. Loll. 54 Fraudars, misdoars, sortylogers. Ibid. 97 Sortilegeris, and oþer þat are put in þe general sentens and cursing of þe kirk. 1483Caxton Cato F ij, Often God permytteth and suffreth that, that the sortylegers and devynours maken to come. 1635Heywood Hierarchy i. Comm. 47 We read of three sorts of these Sortilegers or Fortune-tellers. Ibid. vii. Comm. 473 Now to speake of those Sortilegers and the effects of their Art. 1864A. Leighton Myst. Leg. Edinb. (1886) 224 All which signs seemed only the opportunity of the devout sortileger, who put her hand upon the Bible. |