Witchery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Witchery \Witch"er*y\, n.; pl. {Witcheries}.
     1. Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.
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              Great Comus,
              Deep skilled in all his mother's witcheries.


                                                    --Milton.
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              A woman infamous . . . for witcheries. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     2. Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment.
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              He never felt
              The witchery of the soft blue sky.    --Wordsworth.
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              The dear, dear witchery of song.      --Bryant.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  witchery
       n : the art of sorcery [syn: {witchcraft}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  117 Moby Thesaurus words for "witchery":
     agacerie, alchemy, allure, allurement, appeal, appealingness,
     attraction, attractiveness, bedevilment, beguilement, beguiling,
     bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, captivation,
     charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, delightfulness,
     divination, eeriness, elfdom, enchantment, enravishment,
     enthrallment, enticement, entrancement, entrapment, exquisiteness,
     faerie, fascination, fetishism, flirtation, forbidden fruit,
     glamour, grace, gramarye, hoodoo, illusion, incantation,
     inducement, interest, inveiglement, invitation, invitingness, juju,
     jujuism, loveliness, luxury, magic, magnetism, maya,
     miraculousness, mysteriousness, mystery, natural magic, necromancy,
     numinousness, obeah, obsession, otherworldliness, possession,
     preternaturalism, rune, seducement, seduction, seductiveness,
     sensuousness, sex appeal, shamanism, snaring, sorcery, sortilege,
     spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, superhumanity, supernaturalism,
     supernaturality, supernaturalness, supernature, supernormalness,
     superphysicalness, supersensibleness, supranaturalism, supranature,
     sympathetic magic, tantalization, tantalizingness, temptation,
     temptingness, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism,
     thaumaturgy, the occult, the supernatural, the supersensible,
     theurgy, transcendentalism, unearthliness, unworldliness,
     vampirism, voluptuousness, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, white magic,
     winning ways, winningness, winsomeness, witchcraft, witchwork,
     wizardry, wooing