sorcerize

present singular third person sorcerizes · participle present sorcerizing · participle past sorcerized · past sorcerized · alternative sorcerise

1. ambitransitiveanthropologyTo transform or alter through sorcery; to use sorcery to harm or otherwise affect someone or something.

   your enchaunted salt, your charmed grease, your sorcerised chrisme, your lothsome driuell, that you put vppon theyr eyes, eares, noses, and lyppes

   1603, Samuel Harsnett, chapter 7, in A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures, page 32

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   […] the marvel is that Mammon should so long be permitted to sophisticate, bewitch, and sorcerize the minds of professing, ay, of consecrated Christians.

   1843, “Anti-Mammon”, chapter 10, in The Apostacy of the Age Unveiled, pages 190-191

   If you break off a sugarcane stem, be careful that no stranger sees you do it, or he will return and pick up the butt and use it to sorcerize you.

   1935, Margaret Mead, chapter 4, in Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, page 54

   “I should have thought”—Appleby was frowning into the fire—“that Mrs. Ulstrup was sufficiently sorcerized already. It is your opinion that we have just been visited by some woman concerned to gain an occult power over her?”

   1945, Michael Innes, chapter 14, in Appleby’s End, page 138

   […] they could (if they so desired) perform what their fellows would recognize to be sorcery rites. But despite their ability to do so, the great majority of my informants asserted that they could not actually sorcerize.

   1989, Benson Saler, “Guatemala: Quiché Maya”, in Deward E. Walker, Jr., editor, Witchcraft and Sorcery of the American Native Peoples, page 258