sorcerize
sorcerize verb: to transform or alter through sorcery; to use sorcery to harm or otherwise affect someone or something.
Verb
sorcerize (third-person singular simple present sorcerizes, present participle sorcerizing, simple past and past participle sorcerized)
- To transform or alter through sorcery; to use sorcery to harm or otherwise affect someone or something.
- your enchaunted salt, your charmed grease, your sorcerised chrisme, your lothsome driuell, that you put vppon theyr eyes, eares, noses, and lyppes1603, Samuel Harsnett, chapter 7, in A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures, page 32
- […] the marvel is that Mammon should so long be permitted to sophisticate, bewitch, and sorcerize the minds of professing, ay, of consecrated Christians.1843, “Anti-Mammon”, chapter 10, in The Apostacy of the Age Unveiled, pages 190-191
Examples of sorcerize in a sentence
- If you break off a sugarcane stem, be careful that no stranger sees you do it, or he will return and pick up the butt and use it to sorcerize you.1935, Margaret Mead, chapter 4, in Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, page 54:
- Ulstrup was sufficiently sorcerized already.1945, Michael Innes, chapter 14, in Appleby’s End, page 138:
- But despite their ability to do so, the great majority of my informants asserted that they could not actually sorcerize.1989, Benson Saler, “Guatemala: Quiché Maya”, in Deward E. Walker, Jr., editor, Witchcraft and Sorcery of the American Native Peoples, page...
Forms of sorcerize
| third-person singular present | sorcerizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | sorcerizing |
| past participle | sorcerized |
| past | sorcerized |
| alternative form | sorcerise |
Questions about sorcerize
- What does sorcerize mean?
- Sorcerize means to transform or alter through sorcery; to use sorcery to harm or otherwise affect someone or something.
- How do you use sorcerize in a sentence?
- If you break off a sugarcane stem, be careful that no stranger sees you do it, or he will return and pick up the butt and use it to sorcerize you.
- What part of speech is sorcerize?
- Sorcerize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of sorcerize?
- The past tense of sorcerize is sorcerized.
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