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English
Etymology
From magician + -ess.
Noun
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, 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.
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