wizardy

comparative more wizardy · superlative most wizardy

1. informalResembling or characteristic of a wizard.

   You haven’t seen the old wizardy man with the white beard.

   2009, Lynne Kositsky, “Small Beer and Mince Pies”, in Minerva’s Voyage, Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 164

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   In place of friends came the peasants, to ask of the strange wizardy man advice about their legal rights in property quarrels, about dowries, gain, advantage, for all the world like the danglers at the Papal Court.

   1963, Morris Bishop, “Vaucluse, 1337-1341”, in Petrarch and His World, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →LCCN, page 135

   The wizardy old man from tne introductory screen […] As far as the introduction goes David Whittaker, the man who writes the music for all the best computer games, has been asked to write an amazing score, and Nick [Bruty] is going to draw an old haggard wizardy man the height of the screen.

   1988 November, David Perry, “The Savage story”, in Amstrad Computer User, Macclesfield: Avralite Ltd, →ISSN, page 20, columns 1–2

   Synonyms: wizardlike, wizardly, magicianlike, magicianly, magiciany, weird, witchish, witchlike

1. rareuncountableSynonym of wizardry.

   With some justification the pagan community accused him of charlatanism and wizardy.

   2002, Antigone Samellas, Death in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.) (page 290)

   Synonyms: wizardry