sorcerous
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈsɔrsərəs/
- Literature
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hechicero
- The villagers feared the old woman, believing she possessed sorcerous powers that could curse them.
- sorcerous attack
Examples
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It is highly accessible and designed to enable practitioners to assemble the few tools required, prepare themselves, and begin work almost immediately, reaping the practical and spiritual benefits of sorcerous practice.
Blog text (16) -
"I have studied the arts, both medical and sorcerous."
Fiction book (1992) -
The other, if you'll bear with me for a few lines more, is a sorcerous game of cat-and-mouse in an ancient library:
Blog text (17) -
The kingship of Onitsha is not merely a political office but is also a religious and even a sorcerous one.
Academic text (2001) -
Might even try to harness that surging flow to bend it to his sorcerous will.
Fiction book (1991) -
Sort of a sorcerous warning shot across the bows, intended more to instruct than to punish.
Fiction book (1993) -
With this precious elixir, my sorcerous spell shall be powerful beyond all measurable measurement.
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In Limbo, Magik can probably cast any magic spell that Belasco could, having had access to his store of sorcerous knowledge.
Blog text (19) -
Thus had Corlinn situated his cottage where he did—the river was as good as a wall at his back, in case of sorcerous attack.
Fiction book (1994) -
Though she could pay little, he'd accepted enormous risk recovering a manuscript of hers from a pair of sorcerous bibliophiles, a task that had required another book, a tome of the coldest kind of magic.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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3.8
Having powers that people say come from witches or wizards
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5.5
Having power to make impossible things happen, as in stories
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8.2
Having magic power to change people or things
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6.1
Having a strange, magical feel that seems dark or mysterious
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9.4
Having magical powers like a wizard
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8.8
Having strange magic that seems to affect people or places
Like a person who uses magic and looks frightening
How Magical
Surface Forms
Morphology
sorcerous = sorcerer (transparent) = sorcer + ous
Formed by adding the productive adjective suffix '-ous' to the base meaning 'sorcerer' so the adjective clearly means 'having qualities of a sorcerer'.
Etymology
Sorcerous comes from the Latin root sors, which means 'lot' or 'fate', because a sorcerer was once seen as someone who could read or change a person's fate. So, sorcerous describes someone or something with magic power that seems to affect people's luck.