warlockryn.
? Obsolete.
The practice of magic (by men, or male beings); wizardry.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun]
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1818 Blackwood's Mag. 2 527 Hence proceed..the warlockry and fortune-telling abilities of the shrewd sagacious gypsies.
1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man I. 16 Sin' the Rhymer's days, the spirit o' true warlockry is gane.
1831 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 21 The shadows o' a' the eatables and drinkables that his wild warlockry cou'd hae conjured up.
1834 Hogg in Fraser's Mag. X. 404 Yes, witchcraft! Wicked warlockrye!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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