#992. Sorcery.—
N. sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the
black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy[obs3];
demonology, demonomy[obs3], demonship[obs3]; diablerie[Fr],
bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism,
fetichism, feticism[obs3]; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi,
obiism[obs3]; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism [Esquimaux],
vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment,
mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism;
od force, odylic force[obs3]; electrobiology[obs3],
clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table
turning.
divination &c. (prediction)
511; sortilege[obs3], ordeal, sortes
Virgilianae[obs3]; hocus-pocus &c. (deception) 545.
V. practice sorcery
&c.n.; cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm,
enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance,
mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate &c. (influence) 615;
taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast
a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the
vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead.
Adj. magic, magical;
mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic,
phylacteric[obs3], incantatory; charmed &c. v.; Circean,
odylic[obs3], voodoo.
#993. Spell.—
N. spell, charm, incantation, exorcism, weird,
cabala[obs3], exsufflation|, cantrap[obs3], runes,
abracadabra, open sesame, countercharm[obs3], Ephesian
letters, bell book and candle, Mumbo Jumbo, evil eye,
fee-faw-fum.
talisman, amulet, periapt[obs3],
telesm[obs3], phylactery, philter;
fetich, fetish; agnus Dei[Latin: lamb of God];
furcula[obs3], madstone[obs3]; mascot, mascotte[obs3];
merrythought[obs3]; Om, Aum[obs3]; scarab, scarabaeus[obs3];
sudarium[obs3], triskelion, veronica, wishbone; swastika,
fylfot[obs3], gammadion[obs3].
wand, caduceus, rod,
divining rod, lamp of Aladdin[obs3]; wishing-cap,
Fortunatus’s cap.
#994. Sorcerer.—
N. sorcerer, magician; thaumaturgist[obs3],
theurgist; conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch;
hoodoo, voodoo; fairy &c. 980; lamia[obs3], hag.
warlock, charmer, exorcist,
mage[obs3]; cunning man, medicine man;
Shaman, figure flinger, ecstatica[obs3]; medium, clairvoyant,
fortune teller; mesmerist; deus ex machina[Lat];
soothsayer &c. 513.
Katerfelto, Cagliostro,
Mesmer, Rosicrucian; Circe, siren, weird
sisters.
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#995. Churchdom.—
N. church, churchdom; ministry, apostleship[obs3],
priesthood, prelacy, hierarch[obs3], church government,
christendom, pale of the church.
clericalism, sacerdotalism[obs3],
episcopalianism,
ultramontanism[obs3]; theocracy; ecclesiology[obs3],
ecclesiologist[obs3]; priestcraft[obs3], odium theologicum[Lat].
monachism[obs3], monachy[obs3];
monasticism, monkhood[obs3].
[Ecclesiastical offices
and dignities] pontificate, primacy,
archbishopric[obs3], archiepiscopacy[obs3]; prelacy;


