sorcery的意思|sorcery的解释-里氏词典

sorcery ['sɒ:sәri]

n. 巫术, 魔术

[法] 巫术

sorcery

[ noun ]
the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
<noun.cognition>

Sorcery \Sor"cer*y\, n.; pl. {Sorceries}. [OE. sorcerie, OF.
sorcerie, fr. OF. & F. sorcier a sorcerer, LL. sortiarius,
fr. L. sors, sortis, a lot, decision by lot, fate, destiny.
See {Sort}, n.]
Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil
spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic;
necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.

Adder's wisdom I have learned,
To fence my ear against thy sorceries. --Milton.

Perhaps a bit of sorcery has been involved in those accomplishments, because the Giants' pitching staff has had a medical history to make Blue Cross wince.
By then the Hawaiian people themselves had discarded their kapu system of taboos, curses, sorcery and human sacrifice that exalted the nobles and kept the commoners meek.
International Business Machines Corp. hopes to take the sorcery out of software-writing by announcing an automation scheme that should make programs easier to write and less full of bugs.
The area has a long history of mutilation killings, which are connected with sorcery in which parts of human bodies, particularly those of enemies, are used to bring power and good luck.
John Updike's Brazil is described as 'erotic joy and criminal mischief, politics and sorcery'(Hamish Hamilton).

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