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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SOR'CERY, n. Magic; enchantment; witchcraft; divination be the assistance of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits. Adder's wisdom I have learn'd to fence my ears against the sorceries.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world [syn: sorcery, black magic, black art, necromancy]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English sorcerie, from Anglo-French, from sorcer sorcerer, from Medieval Latin sortiarius, from Latin sort-, sors chance, lot — more at series Date: 14th century 1. the use of power gained from the assistance or control of evil spirits especially for divining ; necromancy 2. magic 2a

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sorcery Sor"cer*y, n.; pl. Sorceries. [OE. sorcerie, OF. sorcerie, fr. OF. & F. sorcier a sorcerer, LL. sortiarius, fr. L. sors, sortis, a lot, decision by lot, fate, destiny. See Sort, n.] Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment. Adder's wisdom I have learned, To fence my ear against thy sorceries. --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Sorcery is magic performed by using the power of evil spirits. = witchcraft

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Divination (by evil spirits), magic, enchantment, witchcraft, necromancy, charm, spell, the black art.

Moby Thesaurus

Black Mass, Prospero, Satanism, airiness, appearance, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, black magic, chthonian worship, clairvoyance, crystal ball, crystal gazing, delusiveness, demonism, demonography, demonolatry, demonology, demonomancy, demonomy, demonry, devil lore, devil worship, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, diabology, diabolology, divination, divining, enchantment, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, fortunetelling, haruspication, haruspicy, horoscopy, idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, immateriality, incantation, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, mantic, mantology, necromancy, palm-reading, palmistry, prestidigitation, pythonism, seeming, semblance, shamanism, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, sorcerer, sortilege, specious appearance, thaumaturgy, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality, white magic, witchcraft, witching, wizardry