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Middle English
- wicche craft(e), wicchecrafte, wicchecreft, wich-crafte, wiche-craft, wichecrafte, witchcraft, wycche crauffte, wycchecraft, wychecraft, wychecreft, wytchecraft
Etymology
From Old English wiccecræft; equivalent to wicche + -craft.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwit͡ʃ(ə)kraft/, /ˈwit͡ʃ(ə)krɛft/
Noun
wicchecraft (plural wicchecraftes)
- witchcraft, magic
1387, chapter XLIV, in John Trevisa, transl., Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis:And in þat ilond is sortilege and wicchecraft [translating superstitiones, atque præstigia] i-vsed. For wommen þere selliþ schipmen wynde, as it were i-closed vnder þre knottes of þrede, so þat þe more wynd he wol haue, he wil vnknette þe mo knottes.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- spell, a particular instance of witchcraft
- enchantment; the result of witchcraft
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