cunningman

plural cunningmen

1. obsoleteA fortuneteller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.

   He that with injury is griev'd, And goes to law to be reliev'd, Is sillier than a sottish chouse Who , when a thief has robb'd his house, Applies himself to cunning men, To help him to his goods agen

   1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC