witcraft
witcraft noun: mental skill; the art of wit.
Noun
witcraft (uncountable)
- Mental skill; the art of wit.
- In its pure form, witcraft can be seen as a democratic art. because it does not depend upon technical expertise. Within an ideal context of pure witcraft, the powerful and the powerless meet upon equal terms.1996, Michael Billig, Arguing and thinking: a rhetorical approach to social psychology
- The art of reasoning; logic.
- It argues that a rhetorical approach maintains space for agency on the behalf of employees (through the witcraft of argument) […]2008, Gillian Symon, “Developing the Political Perspective on Technological Change Through Rhetorical Analysis”, in Management Communication Quarterly, volume 22, number 1
Forms of witcraft
| alternative form | wit-craft |
|---|
Origin of witcraft
From wit + -craft. 1573 by Ralph Lever, The Arte of Reason, rightly termed, Witcraft, teaching a perfect way to argue and dispute.
Questions about witcraft
- What does witcraft mean?
- Witcraft means mental skill; the art of wit.
- What part of speech is witcraft?
- Witcraft is a noun.
Words near witcraft in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: witcraft (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “witcraft.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/witcraft. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.