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单词 sortilege
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sortilegen.1

/ˈsɔːtɪlɪdʒ/
Forms: Also Middle English sortylege.
Etymology: < Old French sortilege (modern French sortilège , = Italian sortilegio , Spanish sortilegio , Portuguese sortilegio ), or < medieval Latin sortilegium , < Latin sortilegus : see sortilege n.2
1. The practice of casting lots in order to decide something or to forecast the future; divination based on this procedure or performed in some other way; †sorcery, magic, witchcraft.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun]
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > casting of lots, sortilege > [noun]
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 43 In þat ilond is sortilege and wicchecraft i-vsed. For wommen þere selliþ schip~men wynde.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) vi. iv. 142 He delited most..In sortilege and in sorcerye.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton F ij This cursyd synne of sortylege haboundeth more in wymmen than in men.
1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 35v He sett vp a great scole at Caunterburye..and taught them..the art Magyck, Sortilege, Physnomye.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xi. x. 197 The cousening art of sortilege or lotarie.
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Sortilege, a Soothsaying or Divination by Lots; also an Electing by casting of Lots.
1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft ii. 66 They endeavoured by sortilege..to find as it were a byroad to the secrets of futurity.
1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. vi. 312 Three times, he related, had lots been drawn;..each time he had owed his life to the chance of sortilege.
1881 A. P. Stanley Christian Inst. v. 87 Signs of what most Christians now would regard as mere remnants of sortilege and sorcery.
2. An act or instance of divining, choosing, or deciding by the drawing or casting of lots.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > choosing by casting lots
lotOE
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1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xliv. xxii. 1183 As the gods in favour have directed this sortilege, so they will bee present and propitious unto mee.
1795 G. Wythe Decis. Cases Virginia 104 Another lottery, according to which the destiny of every ticket ought to have been decided by a single sortilege.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. vii. 162 A woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries.
1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 51 282 All treasonable assumptions..commenced in the hopes inspired by auguries, prophecies, or sortileges.
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral ii. 20 All sortileges, auspices, divinations, and other works of the devil, were forbidden.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

sortilegen.2

Etymology: < Latin sortilegus diviner, fortune-teller, < sort-, sors lot + legĕre to choose. Compare obsolete French sortilegue, Italian sortilego, Spanish sortilego, Portuguese sortilego.
rare.
One who practises divination or sorcery.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun] > practitioner of
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > casting of lots, sortilege > [noun] > one who practises
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1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton Contents iv b Ageynst them that ben sortileges of herbes and of wrytynges for to hele men or horses.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton F j b To the ende that none sette feythe to sortyleges ne to deuyners.
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity V. xi. ix. 253 He is a sortilege, and consults diviners and fortune-tellers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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