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sorcerer

[ sawr-ser-er ]

noun

  1. a person who practices sorcery; black magician; wizard.


sorcerer

/ ˈsɔːsərə; ˈsɔːsərɪs /

noun

  1. a person who seeks to control and use magic powers; a wizard or magician


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  • under·sorcer·er noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sorcerer1

1520–30; earlier sorcer, Middle English < Middle French sorcier, perhaps < Vulgar Latin *sortiārius one who casts lots, equivalent to Latin sort- (stem of sors ) lot, fate + -i- -i- + -ārius -ier 2; -er 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sorcerer1

C16: from Old French sorcier, from Vulgar Latin sortiārius (unattested) caster of lots, from Latin sors lot

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Example Sentences

America was like a “sorcerer,” he said, holding other nations under its powerful spell to keep them from supporting the rebels.

The evil sorcerer Gargamel—and his cat Azrael—always hover nearby, in the hopes of kidnapping them.

Peter MacNichol stars as Galen, an impressively earnest, blotchy, and incompetent sorcerer's apprentice.

Early in the year, Hagrid brings a package to Hogwarts, the Sorcerer's Stone, which grants immortality.

She describes him as a dangerous sectarian, a veritable sorcerer, and the evil genius of one of her own relatives.

He positively passed among them for a sorcerer; he had even been given the title of an 'insectivist.'

It was the contrivance of a white-faced thing, a sorcerer, that dwelt in that country in the Wood of Eld.

Wonderful stories are told by the later chroniclers of a certain Eudo de Stella, who had acquired great notoriety as a sorcerer.

Then they put the two halves of the Sorcerer into it and covered him up.

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