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Witch

noun

A female sorcerer or magician. Synonym: enchantress.

A being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil.

A believer in Wicca. Synonym: Wiccan.

An ugly evil-looking old woman. Synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, hag.

verb

(past & past part. witched; pres. part. witching)

Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something. Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, jinx.

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"Witch" Quotes from Famous Books

... followed the years that are gone," he said; "The spirits the words of the witch fulfill; For I saw the ghost of my father dead, By the moon's dim light on the misty hill. He shook the plumes on his withered head, And the wind through his pale form whistled shrill. And a low, sad voice on the hill I heard, ...

— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon

... captain, "I should take it to mean that if you mark off thirty-seven long paces north from the Witch's Head and eighty-nine long paces east from The Three Sisters, the spot where those paths cross would be the place ...

— Doubloons--and the Girl • John Maxwell Forbes

... creations, the "delicate Ariel." Not an allusion to its shape or figure is made throughout the play; yet we assign it a form on its very first entrance, as soon as Prospero speaks of its refusing to comply with the" abhorred commands" of the witch, Sycorax. And again, in the fifth act, when Ariel, after recounting the sufferings of the wretched usurper ...

— Lectures on Art • Washington Allston

... of that 17th century, crowded with so many important historical events, changes, and personages. Throughout Europe, and especially in what we call our Mother Country, men were unusually arous'd—(some would say demented.) It was a special age of the insanity of witch-trials and witch-hangings. In one year 60 were hung for witchcraft in one English county alone. It was peculiarly an age of military-religious conflict. Protestantism and Catholicism were wrestling like giants for the mastery, straining ...

— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

... professions, or offices, with such energy that the enraged hearers proceeded to violence against those whom the preacher had denounced. A sermon which Bernardino once preached in Rome (1424) had another consequence besides a bonfire of vanities on the Capitol: 'After this,' we read, 'the witch Finicella was burnt, because by her diabolical arts she had killed many children and bewitched many other persons; and all Rome went to ...

— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt

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