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sortilegy|sɔːˈtɪlədʒɪ, ˈsɔːtɪlɛdʒɪ|
Also 4–5 sortelegye, -legie (-logie), 6 sortilegie, 7 -ligie.
[ad. med.L. sortilegi-um: see sortilege1.]
1. Divination by the casting or drawing of lots or otherwise; = sortilege1 1.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 411 Oft gyled was this brood,..For Merlyns prophecie, And ofte for sortelogie [v.r. sortelegie]. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xiii. xxix. (1886) 278 The Aegyptians juggling witchcraft or Sortilegie. 1680C. Nesse Ch. Hist. 269 He had by his sortilegy, or rather sorcery, found out his lucky day. 1839De Quincey Mod. Superst. Wks. 1853 III. 307 That mode of sortilegy which is conducted by throwing open priviledged books at random. 1883J. Payn Thicker than Water xxviii, Miss Blithers the elder, who believed in sortilegy, presented her with a tract, drawn at random from a whole sheaf of them.
2. An act or instance of this; = sortilege1 2.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §18. 39 Even in sortilegies and matters of greatest uncertainty, there is a setled and preordered course of effects. 1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 28 When that venerable Quack sold his Brethrens lives (by a Sortiligie) to save his own. |