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• The Bible warns against the use of witchcraft and sorcery.From the entry witchcraft
• “Sorcery, Magicianry, and Witchcraft.” She circled each word in the light.2023, Jessica K. Schneider, The Shifter’s Oath: Darkling Chronicles, Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry magicianry
• God's last book warns, "by sorcery all the nations were deceived" (Revelation 18:23).2005, Steve Wohlberg, End Time Delusions. From the entry Pottermania
• Their worship was but enchantment, sorcery, unlike the sacred law of fire-worship, wiles and magic.2001 -, Edwin Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture, →ISBN. From the entry fire-worship
• We can’t stop them starting to spellcast—but sorcery will be no defence against these weapons.1992, Mary Gentle, chapter 6, in Grunts! A Fantasy with Attitude, New York, N.Y.: Roc, published 1995, →ISBN, book 1 (Brothers in Arms)…. From the entry spellcast
• Fantastication, sorcery, and magic gradually disappear from later texts.2013, Jan C. Zadoks, Crop Protection in Medieval Agriculture: Studies in pre-modern organic agriculture. From the entry fantastication
• Here the apostle engages in a Harry-Potterish competition in sorcery.2004, Edward Stourton, Paul of Tarsus: A Visionary Life, HiddenSpring, published 2005, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry Harry-Potterish
• The Yoruba practitioner has no difficulty in knowing the difference between what we have classified as magic, medicine or sorcery.2003, P. Adelumo Dopamu, Samuel O. Oyewole, African Culture, Modern Science, and Religious Thought, African Centre for Religions and the…. From the entry Yoruba
• It's set in a medieval world of swords and sorcery.1989, Iron Lord (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 46, page 16). From the entry newie
• Join us before the concert at 3pm for a Halloween party featuring sonic sorcery, our beloved costume contest and all other manner of Hogwartsian fun.2016 October 23, The Courier, volume 158, number 250, page F5. From the entry Hogwartsian
• Elphaba is shunned by the other students at a Hogwartsian sorcery school called Shiz University, while the prom-queen perky Galinda rules the roost.2010 September 4, Don Aucoin, “‘Wicked’ tough to beat, as is its star”, in The Boston Globe, volume 278, number 66, page G5. From the entry Hogwartsian
• She joked about her previous suspicions of sorcery, saying that one claims one has been ensorcelled, but, really, the sorcery was one's own body.2000, Christopher O. Davis, Death in Abeyance: Illness and Therapy among the Tabwa of Central Africa (International African Library; 23)…. From the entry ensorcell
• The fantasy worlds of simulation gaming are commonly pseudomedieval, involving swords and sorcery — spell-casting wizards, knights in armor, unicorns and dragons, demons and goblins.1992, Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown […] , Bantam Books, →ISBN. From the entry pseudomedieval
• For months the Japanese spoke of national-security adviser Henry Kissinger as a ninja—the magician of Japanese legends who performs supernatural acts and practices sorcery.1972 September 11, Newsweek, Int'l edition, page 28. From the entry ninja
• Sorcery is not the exclusive prerogative of the fetish-man, but is practised haphazardly by anyone who wishes to cast a spell upon another.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178. From the entry cast
• Now the works of the flesh are plain: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like.1946, The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: Revised Standard Version: Translated from the Greek: […], New York, N.Y.…. From the entry party spirit
• An enormous number of monks and priests gave themselves up to sorcery, and there was no lack of apostate priests to perform the ceremonies of the Black Mass.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 101. From the entry apostate
• The method of the root's use was pure sorcery; the powder being burned over a fire, with some of the operator's pubic hair and characteristic secretions.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 161. From the entry pubic hair
• During the Middle Ages, and up to the time of the Commonwealth, various men made a profession of "Witch Finding" and hunting down individuals suspected of sorcery.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 221. From the entry witchfinding
• Just as in Scandinavia the parasitic rowan is deemed a countercharm to sorcery, so in Germany the parasitic mistletoe is still commonly considered a protection against witchcraft.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 282. From the entry countercharm
• I think all readers will be impressed by the manner in which Marwick places his own analysis in relation to previous studies both of sorcery and of conflict in general.1965, Max Gluckman, “Foreword”, in M[axwell] G[ay] Marwick, Sorcery in Its Social Setting: A Study of the Northern Rhodesian Ceŵa…. From the entry one-upmanship
• The poet had continually to be performing acrobatic feats, now of rhetoric or epigram, now of learning, or again in the description of blood-curdling horrors, monstrous deaths and prodigious sorceries.1908, Harold Edgeworth Butler, Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal. From the entry purple patch

Meaning of sorcery

1. noun Magical power; the use of witchcraft or magic arts.
2. noun Black magic.

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How do you use sorcery in a sentence?

Sorcery is used as a noun. For example: “The tale is full of magic and sorcery.”

What is a short sentence with sorcery?

“The tale is full of magic and sorcery.”

What does sorcery mean?

Sorcery means magical power; the use of witchcraft or magic arts.