Sortilege

Quick meaning: Sortilege is a noun meaning Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions.

Meaning

Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions.

Example Sentences

‘Too much evil sortilege,’ Glad always says when someone suggests he open a franchise over Cheat Ridge.

Orthodox believers […] were less happy about using sortilege to coerce God into taking decisions on their behalf.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• sortileges

Synonyms for sortilege

Depending on context, synonyms include sorcery, thaumaturgy, wizardry, bewitchery, charmwork, conjuration.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include witchcraft, magic, wizarding, spellcraft, magick, magistery.

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