sorcelled

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A form of sorcell

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastraresimple past and past participle of sorcell: alternative form of ensorcelled (“bewitched, enchanted”).

    Anythin' that'd hold water could be sorcelled into a gate.

    1999, Barbara Hambly, Dragonshadow, Del Rey, →ISBN, page 199
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    It blows above the blue Far-vistaed Paphian sea, Or so the woman said Whose green eyes ’sorcelled me.

    1923, William Alexander Percy, “The Pilgrim of the Upland Meadows”, in William Stanley Braithwaite, editor, Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1922, Small, Maynard & Company, page 158

    (She'd seen him, a shadowy form in her sorcelled mirror, seated with his nobles, preparing his treacherous stroke.)

    1973, John Gardner, Jason and Medeia, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 208

    A sorcelled mist clouded her mind, and the sounds of the vehement flies and the bated breathing of those around her folded back.

    1981, A.A. Attanasio, Radix, Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 116

    And, though Wirt had assured her that the Lothians would not come araiding until the harvest was done and that some weeks in the future, she worried that Wirt should be caught up by some fennish ague on the road, or have the pox from some Lothian slattern, or be sorcelled by demons of the waste, or be left as a lonely sentinel while the rest of the garrison returned.

    1985, Justin Leiber, The Sword and the Eye, TOR, →ISBN, page 156

    "That Lake-walker. He's sorcelled me all up. I can't hardly think, these days."

    2008, Lois McMaster Bujold, Passage (The Sharing Knife; 3), HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 345
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Chicago

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