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wizardry|ˈwɪzədrɪ|
[f. wizard n. + -ry.]
1. a. The art or practice of a wizard or wizards; wizardly or magic skill; witchery, witchcraft.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. cix. 671/1 If these [inchanters or witches] be forbidden; we must vnderstand..yt all other kinds of Wisardrie are deadly crimes. 1665Patrick Pilgrim vii. 23, I never used any other Wizzard[r]y to make my Land better than my neighbours, but what you will find to lye in these Spades, Ploughs, and Oxen. 1796W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XX. 535 The Arabic wizardry of the Italian, the elfen mythology of the German poet, seemed to offer rival resources for a supernatural machinery. 1855Browning Men & Women i. An Epistle 249 The learned leech Perished in a tumult many years ago, Accused..of wizardry. 1861S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 239 All the witcheries and wizardries that found home in the imaginations of the people. 1877Symonds Renaiss. It. vi. 343 As a physiognomist and diviner, he acquired a reputation bordering on wizardry.
b. transf. Magic lore.
1876E. Dowden Poems 196 There I will sit, and score rare wisardry In characters vermilion, azure, gold.
2. fig. ‘Magical’ or ‘bewitching’ art, power, or influence; ‘magic’. Also more loosely, skill, expertise, or the result of this.
1884J. Parker Apost. Life II. 265 Time..works its wondrous wizardry upon the mind. 1887Academy 20 Aug. 113/3 So fascinating a writer is Mr. Matthew Arnold, so all conquering is his own wizardry. 1901‘L. Malet’ Calmady v. ii. You have employed a certain wizardry in the furnishing of that room. 1951Sport 27 Jan.–2 Feb. 3/3 Rounding off the wing wizardry of Finney and Morrison are inside men Horton, Wayman and Bobby Beattie. 1974W. J. Burley Death in Stanley Street viii. 142 Bits of electrical wizardry which must have come from a record player or a television set. 1979Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. (Comic Suppl.), Peter Parker uses his scientific wizardry. |