单词 | sortileger |
释义 | sortilegern. Now rare. One who divines, chooses, or settles by drawing lots or otherwise; a diviner, fortune-teller. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun] > practitioner of wielerOE divinerc1330 divine1340 divinisterc1405 ruspicerc1475 sortilegerc1475 sortilege1483 cole-prophet1532 augur1570 divinator1608 sortiary1652 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > casting of lots, sortilege > [noun] > one who practises sortilegerc1475 sortilege1483 lot-monger1549 sortiary1652 c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 97 Sortilegeris, and oþer þat are put in þe general sentens and cursing of þe kirk. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 54 Fraudars, misdoars, sortylogers. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton F ij Often God permytteth and suffreth that, that the sortylegers and devynours maken to come. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells i. Comm. 47 We read of three sorts of these Sortilegers or Fortune-tellers. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells vii. Comm. 473 Now to speake of those Sortilegers and the effects of their Art. 1864 A. Leighton Myst. Legends Edinb. (1886) 224 All which signs seemed only the opportunity of the devout sortileger, who put her hand upon the Bible. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1475 |
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