sorcery

From Middle English sorcery, borrowed from Middle French sorcerie, ultimately derived from Latin sors (“fate”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sort, line up”). Compare also French sorcier.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɹ.sə.ɹi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔː.sə.ɹi/

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sorcery (countable and uncountable, plural sorceries)

1. Magical power; the use of witchcraft or magic arts.

• black magic
• magic
• witchcraft
• wizardry
• warlockry
• wizardcraft
• hexcraft
• spellcraft
• spellcasting

• sorcerer
• sorceress
• sort

• Sorcery in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• sorcerye, sorcerie, sorcere, socerry, soserye, socerye

From Middle French sorcerie, from Old French sorcerie.

• IPA^(key): /sɔrsəˈriː(ə)/, /sɔrsəˈreː(ə)/
• (with /rs/→/s/) IPA^(key): /sɔsəˈriː(ə)/, /sɔsəˈreː(ə)/

sorcery (plural sorceries)

1. sorcery, wizardry, magic
2. A supernatural event

• sorcerere
• sorceresse

• English: sorcery
• Scots: sorcery

• “sorcerī(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.