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witch
noun
1 witch
A female sorcerer or magician.
synonym: enchantress.
Roget 513:
oracle;
prophet,
prophesier,
seer,
soothsayer,
augur,
fortune teller,
crystal gazer†,
witch,
geomancer†,
aruspex†;
aruspice†,
haruspice†;
haruspex;
astrologer,
star gazer†;
Sibyl;
Python,
Pythoness†;
Pythia;
Pythian oracle,
Delphian oracle;
Monitor,
Sphinx,
Tiresias,
Cassandra†,
Sibylline leaves;
Zadkiel,
Old Moore;
sorcerer
etc.
994;
interpreter,
etc.
524.
[person who predicts by non-mystical (natural) means]
predictor,
prognosticator,
forecaster;
weather forecaster,
weatherman.
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Dutch: heks, kol, tovenares, toverheks, toverkol
Polish: wiedźma, czarownica
2 witch
A being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil.
Polish: wiedźma, czarownica
3 witch
A believer in Wicca.
synonym: Wiccan.
Polish: wicca, wiccanin, wikanin, wikkanin
4 witch
An ugly evil-looking old woman.
synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, hag.
Roget 846:
ugliness
etc.
adj.;
deformity,
inelegance;
acomia†;
disfigurement
etc.
(blemish)
848;
want of symmetry,
inconcinnity†;
distortion
etc.
243;
squalor
etc.
(uncleanness)
653.
forbidding countenance,
vinegar aspect,
hanging look,
wry face,
spretae injuria formae"
[Vergil].
[person who is ugly]
eyesore,
object,
witch,
hag,
figure,
sight,
fright;
monster;
dog [Coll.],
woofer [Coll.],
pig [Coll.];
octopus,
specter,
scarecrow,
harridan†,
satyr†,
toad,
monkey,
baboon,
Caliban,
Aesop†,
monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum [Lat.]
[Vergil].
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Roget 994:
sorcerer,
magician;
thaumaturgist†,
theurgist;
conjuror,
necromancer,
seer,
wizard,
witch;
hoodoo,
voodoo;
fairy
etc.
980;
lamia†,
hag.
warlock,
charmer,
exorcist,
mage†;
cunning man,
medicine man;
Shaman,
figure flinger,
ecstatica†;
medium,
clairvoyant,
fortune teller;
mesmerist;
deus ex machina [Lat.];
soothsayer
etc.
513.
Katerfelto,
Cagliostro,
Mesmer,
Rosicrucian;
Circe,
siren,
weird sisters.
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Dutch: oud wijf, helleveeg, taart, lelijk wijf, tovenaar, kol, furie, heks, besje, tovenares
Polish: stara, starucha
verb
1 witch
Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something.
synonyms: bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, jinx.
Dutch: beheksen, betoveren
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