(n.) Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.
(n.) A spell or charm.
(a.) Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
(a.) Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
(v. t.) To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.
Example Sentences:
(1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(2) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
(3) They were ravaged by injuries at that point, although Park and Rafael in the centre was weird.
(4) It is still weird that "arts and crafts" is in the same category as dolls.
(5) In Niki Savva’s book The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government, Credlin has even been compared to Wallis Simpson, a deeply weird analogy.
(6) "Weirdly, we sold it to lots of European countries where there's not only the issue about knowing who Steve and Rob are, but I assume all the impressions are slightly lost on them.
(7) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(8) As Alice Ross of the FT points out: Alice Ross (@aliceemross) Weird that Hollande is talking about an exchange rate that matches "true state" of ezone economy.
(9) I don't have any weirdness about it, or any of them."
(10) Weirdly, the muffled Doppler effects of several thousand passing SUVs was quite soothing.
(11) "Brr, that was weird, but we were cheeky little kids.
(12) As the weirdly brilliant TV show Fashion Police – hosted by the late, great Joan Rivers, who, along with various randoms, passed judgment on clothes worn by celebrities that week – demonstrated, people have different takes on clothes.
(13) "If viewers think something is false or weird, that's when they reject it," says Gary Knight, commercial content director at ITV.
(14) Are the 'Set Piece' binders to stay like we are playing a weird version of American Football?'
(15) Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Marché du Film, the world's biggest movie market.
(16) They occupy that weird middle ground between anonymity and celebrity; they're from well-regarded restaurants, but they're not at the level where, say, James Martin can be obnoxious at them on Saturday Kitchen.
(17) They sat me in a chair and just shaved most of my hair off in weird concentric rings so I looked like a tonsured 14th-century monk who had had brain surgery.
(18) I know some people will think it's weird to be so organised but I did it last year for the first time, and I found it very relaxing to know I had everything wrapped up by the end of November.
(19) It’s all well and good standing in a gallery and stroking your chin, but if you cast your eyes to the left and summon the concentration it takes to read the little rectangle of artistic blurb next to it, all of that context and explanation really helps transform that weird bit of twisted wire your kid could make into something deep and primal pulled from the soul.
(20) Away from the violence and the weirdness, Korea supports a healthy contingent of award-winning auteurs, like Hong Sang-soo , Im Sang-soo or Lee Chang-dong.
Witchcraft
Definition:
(n.) The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.
(n.) Power more than natural; irresistible influence.
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) Bikubi's fear of witchcraft was mingled with a strange kind of arrogance.
(3) A senior Haitian diplomat was caught on camera claiming the earthquake would be good for his country and appearing to blame the catastrophe on "witchcraft".
(4) Having examined this system as a whole, the author devotes his attention to a particular set of etiological categories, those which associate illness with witchcraft (nocturnal illnesses).
(5) Detectives said other children in Britain had been subjected to terrible ordeals after being accused of witchcraft, and children's charities and campaigners called for more to be done to make carers and churches aware of possible abuse.
(6) The majority of these works contain the implicit or explicit assumption that witchcraft was a cruel, irrational delusion that resulted in the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands or innocent victims (Anderson, 1970).
(7) An accusation of witchcraft by Ms Kisanga's eight-year-old son began child B's ordeal.
(8) "The pastor will say: 'No matter what your problems, I can solve them by protecting you against the evil forces of witchcraft'.
(9) The two dimensions of witchcraft and of sorcery, though distinct, are seen to be essentially related to one another.
(10) As all good students of the Harry Potter saga know well, Muggles are not usually allowed at Hogwarts school of witchcraft of wizardry.
(11) Giving evidence through a French interpreter, Kelly said the pair were fixated on the idea that the three siblings were practising witchcraft.
(12) Immediately, accusations of witchcraft arose; many teams across central and western Africa are known to employ the services of witchdoctors to put curses on their opponents.
(13) In the case of "kokwana" it is said that the snake, "sent" to the child through witchcraft, "eats" the child's food and the child itself.
(14) Witchcraft had preoccupied Bikubi from an early age.
(15) Many Congolese people consider mental illness as a spiritual problem; belief in witchcraft is widespread.
(16) Each referent (divinity, ancestor, magic, witchcraft, etc.)
(17) The rural Xhosa people of South Africa have retained social cohesion through traditional custom, purity of language and the dominant role of ancestor worship, traditional medicine and witchcraft in life-style, beliefs and ceremonies.
(18) The indication was abdominal pain in 4 cases, infertility and abdominal pain in one and prophylaxis against witchcraft in the other.
(19) But child-protection specialists are increasingly coming across a kind of case that few textbooks have prepared them for: abuse of children related to belief in witchcraft.
(20) "He was reporting that his family at the time feared that if he went around saying these things he would be labelled as being affected by witchcraft."