wizarding
English edit
Etymology edit
wizard + -ing, popularized in the late 1990s by J K Rowling's Harry Potter novels.
Verb edit
wizarding
- present participle and gerund of wizard
Noun edit
wizarding (uncountable)
- The magical work of a wizard; sorcery, witchcraft.
- 1904, Arthur Williams Marchmont, Norman Hardy, By snare of love:
- And he said he knew the paper was but a forgery, my lord; that His Highness, Rechad Effendi, had never seen it; that his master the American knew this too; that he had learnt all my lord's plans by wizarding, and knew them...
- 2000, Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent:
- Not using magic is what wizarding is all about!
- 2007, William P MacNeil, Lex populi: the jurisprudence of popular culture:
- For instance, when Dumbledore offered to pay him ten Galleons a week — a standard wizarding wage, but for an elf an embarras de richesses...