magicianess
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
magicianess (plural magicianesses)
- (rare) A female magician.
- Synonym: magicienne
- 1695, Samuel Morland, The Urim of Conscience … With Three Select Prayers for Private Families, →OCLC, page 44:
- The Magicianeſs Bacoti, keeps conſtant Correſpondence with the Devil (to whom, if ſhe has a Daughter, ſhe offers her as ſoon as ſhe is born,) and if any Mother happen to loſe a Child, ſhe makes her Addreſs to this Magicianeſs, who, by the beat of a Drum, pretends to Summon the Soul of that Child, and tell the Mother, whether its Condition in the other World be Good or otherwiſe.
- 1898, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic, Chicago: Hahn & Whitehead, →OCLC, page 25:
- […] a Magician doth not, amongst learned men, signify a sorcerer or one that is superstitious or devilish; but a wise man, a priest, a prophet; and that the Sybils were Magicianesses, and therefore prophesied most clearly of Christ;
- 2015, Renee Starr, You Are Woman, You Are Divine: The Modern Woman's Journey Back to The Goddess[1], Gardena: Over and Above Creative, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:
- For you see, Isis, my sister, the great and beautiful goddess of re-membering, whose true name is Auset, was the most magnificent magicianess in the whole of creation.
Translations edit
female magician
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Further reading edit
- “magicianess”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “magicianess”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.