(n.) Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author encountered a patient who had undergone various sorcery and wizardry practices.
(2) Its sheiks and warlords, the fawned-upon princes who once did as they wished – buying up most of Streatham in the morning, beheading someone for sorcery in the afternoon – well, they’re dust and shadow now.
(3) People will be turned off by the swords and the sorcery and, most of all, by the names."
(4) illness of sorcery, illness of the shades or ancestors and "natural" illness or illness that "just happens".
(5) These have spawned a decadent and west-friendly royal family that preside over a society where clerics run amok, where imams rant against infidels, religious minorities are oppressed, education is heavily slanted towards religion and where people are beheaded for sorcery.
(6) Thus rainmaking and sorcery control, the principal services in traditional African societies, are the focus of this study.
(7) We describe the patterns of illness attributed to sorcery among 209 patients who attended a special clinic in south India.
(8) The two dimensions of witchcraft and of sorcery, though distinct, are seen to be essentially related to one another.
(9) Case histories of black Americans who believe their illness has been caused by sorcery have been reported with increasing frequency in the clinical literature.
(10) The older patients with a mean age of 29.7 years tended to believe the cause was sorcery (puripuri); the younger patients did not.
(11) Within this general aetiological frame, serious diarrhoeal disease of infants is usually seen as sorcery related.
(12) This type of financial sorcery does not come cheap but Blair has pulled off the magic before, having acted as an intermediary between Irish property investor Patrick McKillen and Sheikh Hamad over a potential £70m hotel investment.
(13) Any police force would be shaken by the sight, but the grisly tableau's arrangement seemed designed to instill terror in young officers from parts of southern Mexico where superstition and belief in sorcery are common.
(14) These concerns centre on the competing possibilities that the death has been caused either by sorcery or by chronic and heavy consumption of alcohol.
(15) In the ensuing ethnic dialog, Meratus shamans are cast as perpetrators as well as curers of the kind of illness-causing sorcery that makes Banjar most vulnerable.
(16) The rootwork system combines a belief in the magical causation of illness with cures by sorcery and an empiric tradition stressing the natural causation of illness with cures by herbs and medicines.
(17) The results of the study are as follows: the prevalence rate was highest among children under the age of 5 (13.5%); diarrhoea related deaths in relation to total mortality was found to be highest, both in under 5 (41.7%) and above 5 (27.3%); 33.1% of the women believed that diarrhea was caused by the "Will Of God", 11.5% believed that it was caused by sorcery; 29.5% attributed diarrhea to poor sanitation; 63.8% recognized the dangers of diarrhea and realized that it could cause death.
(18) Notions of sorcery, taboo violation and contamination were often expressed when describing the etiologies of locally-recognized sexually transmitted diseases.
(19) He had a brush with big-budget Hollywood film-making in 2006 with the lead role in poorly received swords and sorcery fantasy Eragon .
(20) The interplay of magic and technology works smoothly because, basically, sorcery is often just an incendiary weapon that does expansive damage – sort of a supernatural airstrike.
Wizardry
Definition:
(n.) The character or practices o/ wizards; sorcery; magic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(2) David Stubbs Wizards vs Aliens 5.30pm, CBBC New series of Russell T Davies’s drama, full of wizardry and big-league special effects.
(3) The author encountered a patient who had undergone various sorcery and wizardry practices.
(4) Our trip over, we take one final look out from our luxurious room, back up the valley to the stupendous Matterhorn, and agree no amount of interior design wizardry can compete with that view.
(5) As Wilshere observed City’s pinball-wizardry pass him by, did he wonder what-might-have-been regarding the proposed move here?
(6) As all good students of the Harry Potter saga know well, Muggles are not usually allowed at Hogwarts school of witchcraft of wizardry.
(7) Campaign insiders say that the emphasis this year will be on efficiency more than any headline-grabbing technical wizardry.
(8) The game also demanded intimate knowledge of the first three Wizardry titles, making it stunningly inaccessible.
(9) Gaubeca said that the US border with Mexico had seen the introduction of hi-tech wizardry developed in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, such as unmanned drones, ground motion sensors, thermal imaging and night-vision goggles.
(10) Nine years ago, Chalmers formed a group called Urban Eden to preserve this wizardry.
(11) It is otherwise a mishmash of free-market wizardry and global cop role-playing.
(12) Technological wizardry aside, for sensory marketing to be successful it should continue to take its cues from human insights.
(13) They could be identified, profiled and targeted by the technical wizardry of professional pollsters.
(14) The dreams of patients, in which unconscious pressures come to the surface, are perceived to confirm the existence and reality of wizardry assault.
(15) Cameron said of New Labour's time in office: "The City, which should have been a powerhouse of competition and creativity, became instead a byword for a sort of financial wizardry that left the taxpayer with all the risk, and a fortunate few with all of the rewards.
(16) Current boss Pascal shows me his special room, where all his wizardry and magic happens.
(17) In 2001, it emerged a rare hatchet fish in BBC series The Blue Planet was "reanimated" using computer wizardry after the genuine fish that was captured by programme-makers died.
(18) We now know the banks' tricks involved not just dubious wizardry but a measure of wickedness too.
(19) Dickson said he hoped Shkreli’s “financial wizardry” would alert the authorities to the loopholes in the law.
(20) These movies combine apparently forward-looking technological FX wizardry with a deeply conservative commitment to Manichean violence.