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▪ I. sortilege1|ˈsɔːtɪlɪdʒ|
Also 5 sortylege.
[a. OF. sortilege (mod.F. sortilège, = It., Sp., Pg. sortilegio), or ad. med.L. sortilegium, f. L. sortilegus: see next.]
1. The practice of casting lots in order to decide something or to forecast the future; divination based on this procedure or performed in some other way; † sorcery, magic, witchcraft.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 43 In þat ilond is sortilege and wicchecraft i-vsed. For wommen þere selliþ schip⁓men wynde. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas vi. iv. (1554) 142 He delited most..In sortilege and in sorcerye. 1483Caxton Cato F ij, This cursyd synne of sortylege haboundeth more in wymmen than in men. 1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. 35 b, He sett vp a great scole at Caunterburye..and taught them..the art Magyck, Sortilege, Physnomye. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xi. x. (1886) 159 The cousening art of sortilege or lotarie. 1730Bailey (fol.), Sortilege, a Soothsaying or Divination by Lots; also an Electing by casting of Lots. 1830Scott Demonol. ii. 66 They endeavoured by sortilege..to find as it were a byroad to the secrets of futurity. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. vi. (1865) I. 275 Three times, he related, had lots been drawn;..each time he had owed his life to the chance of sortilege. 1881Stanley Christ. Instit. v. 87 Signs of what most Christians now would regard as mere remnants of sortilege and sorcery.
2. An act or instance of divining, choosing, or deciding by the drawing or casting of lots.
1600Holland Livy xliv. xxii. 1183 As the gods in favour have directed this sortilege, so they will bee present and propitious unto mee. 1795Wythe Decis. 104 Another lottery, according to which the destiny of every ticket ought to have been decided by a single sortilege. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxvii, A woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries. 1842Blackw. Mag. LI. 282 All treasonable assumptions..commenced in the hopes inspired by auguries, prophecies, or sortileges. 1868Milman St. Paul's ii. 20 All sortileges, auspices, divinations, and other works of the devil, were forbidden.
▪ II. sortilege2 rare.
[ad. L. sortileg-us diviner, fortune-teller, f. sort-, sors lot + legĕre to choose. Cf. obs. F. sortilegue, It., Sp., Pg. sortilego.]
One who practises divination or sorcery.
1483Caxton Cato Contents iv b, Ageynst them that ben sortileges of herbes and of wrytynges for to hele men or horses. Ibid. F j b, To the ende that none sette feythe to sortyleges ne to deuyners. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. V. xi. ix. 253 He is a sortilege, and consults diviners and fortune⁓tellers. |