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/ˈsɔːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/ · noun
Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions..
We have therefore summoned to our presence a Jewish woman, by name Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York — a woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries.
Orthodox believers […] were less happy about using sortilege to coerce God into taking decisions on their behalf.
‘Too much evil sortilege,’ Glad always says when someone suggests he open a franchise over Cheat Ridge.
People who faced difficult decisions or needed insight into the future would consult a diviner, who performed a ritual to locate an oracle in the codex and then interpreted the divinatory text. In Egypt and the wider Mediterranean world, this practice - sortilege - was both common and controversial.
Use sortilege when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sortilege means Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions..
Common synonyms include sorcery, thaumaturgy, wizardry, bewitchery.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
We have therefore summoned to our presence a Jewish woman, by name Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York — a woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries.
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