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sor⋅cer⋅er

[sawr-ser-er]
–noun
a person who practices sorcery; black magician; wizard.

Origin:
1520–30; earlier sorcer, ME < MF sorcier, perh. < VL *sortiārius one who casts lots, equiv. to L sort- (s. of sors) lot, fate + -i- -i- + -ārius -ier 2 ; see -er 1
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sor·cer·er   (sôr'sər-ər)   
n.  One who practices sorcery; a wizard.

[Middle English sorser, sorcerer, from Old French sorcier, from Vulgar Latin *sortiārius, from Latin sors, sort-, lot, fortune; see ser-2 in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Computing Dictionary

SORCERER tool
A simple tree parser generator by Terence Parr .
SORCERER is suitable for translation problems lying between those solved by code generator generators and by full source-to-source translator generators. SORCERER generates simple, flexible, top-down, tree parsers that, in contrast to code generators, may execute actions at any point during a tree walk. SORCERER accepts extended BNF notation, allows predicates to direct the tree walk with semantic and syntactic context information, and does not rely on any particular intermediate form, parser generator, or other pre-existing application.
SORCERER is included in the Purdue Compiler-Construction Tool Set.
Version: 1.00B
(ftp://marvin.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/pccts/sorcerer/).
E-mail: ("e-mail sor.tar.Z.uu" in subject).
Mailing list: pccts-users-request@ahpcrc.umn.edu (message body: "subscribe pccts-users YOUR-NAME", where YOUR-NAME can be your name or e-mail address).
(1994-02-15)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Bible Dictionary

Sorcerer

from the Latin sortiarius, one who casts lots, or one who tells the lot of others. (See DIVINATION.) In Dan. 2:2 it is the rendering of the Hebrew mekhashphim, i.e., mutterers, men who professed to have power with evil spirits. The practice of sorcery exposed to severest punishment (Mal. 3:5; Rev. 21:8; 22:15).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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