| 单词 | witch-man |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswitch-man witch-man n. (a) a man who practises witchcraft or magic, a wizard (cf. sense 1a and man-witch n. at man n.1 Compounds 1b); (b) regional (now rare and historical) a mummer participating in the celebration of Plough Monday; = plough witch n. (cf. witch-chap n.). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > sorcerer or magician > [noun] wielerOE jugglera1100 wielea1350 magicianc1375 sorcerc1400 warlockc1400 mage?a1425 sorcerer1526 witch-mana1538 wizarda1557 wise man1562 cunning man1594 man-witch1601 wonder-master1603 sorcerist1624 talisman1646 ob1659 fascinator1677 varlet1701 Magian1716 brujo1758 mediciner1845 bomoh1851 pellar1865 trollman1865 baloi1871 magic-man1905 Wiccan1971 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [noun] > mummer > types of witch-mana1538 plough bullock1762 plough stot1817 witch-chap1827 plough bullocker1848 plough jag1852 plough jack1859 plough witcher1860 oonchook1885 janney1896 plough witcha1903 hodener1909 a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 76v in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Operatioun of the ewill spreit & the wiche man or woman as instrument he tholis this operatioune in punitioun of synnaris. 1615 Shorte Declar. li. sig. M4v A witchman did confesse..that when they wold desire anie Tempeest to be stired vp in the Aire they Incalled the Prince of Deuills. 1851 T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants. Witch-men, guisers who go about on Plough-Monday. 1882 W. Featherstonhaugh in Folk-lore Jrnl. (1883) 1 91 A farmer, having a horse taken ill, sent for a well-known witchman. 1990 U. K. Le Guin Tehanu 98 There's witch-men of little account, witch-tinkers and the like, some of them'll try their own spells of beguilement on country women, but for all I can see, those spells don't amount to much. 2011 N. Pennick In Field & Fen vii. 74 The Witch-men described by Sternberg, stuffed straw into their smocks to give the illusion of humped backs. < as lemmas |
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