| 单词 | witch's mark |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswitch's mark witch's mark n. now chiefly historical a mark or protuberance on the skin, taken to indicate that a person is a witch; = witch-mark n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark > witch-mark witch's mark1624 witch-mark1644 1624 J. Cotta Triall Witch-craft (ed. 2) x. 89 Those supposed Witches markes, before they can iustly and truely bee iudged to bee by the Diuell effected or vsed, must by some stampe or signe proper to himselfe, or to his workes, or to his vse or propertie therein, be so determined and conuinced to be. 1845 Evergreen Nov. 349/1 He began the work of searching for the ‘witch's mark’, by thrusting pins into various parts of the innocent man's body. 2002 G. Duncan I, Lucifer (2003) 149 The Pricker is called in to search for the witch's mark. Third nipple, scar, mole, pimple, freckle, wen, wart, birthmark, scratch, scab—pretty much anything in the blemish family qualifies. < as lemmas |
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