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wicca

  • noun [ masculine ]
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wicca, an; m.
A wizard, soothsayer, sorcerer, magician
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  • Wicca

    ariolus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 57, 40 : 60, 30.

  • Dréas and wiccan

    arioli et conjectoris

    (in similitudinem arioli et conjectoris,
      Prov. 23, 7), Kent. Gl. 869.

  • Drýmen and feóndlíce wiccan and óðre wígeleras,

      Homl. Th. ii. 330, 28 : Wulfst. 27, 1.

  • Be wiccum, wíglerum, etc. Gif wiccan oþþe wigleras . . . ,

      L. E. G. 11; Th, i. 172, 20 : L. Eth. vi. 7; Th. i. 316, 20 : L. C. S. 4; Th. i. 378, 7.

  • Wiccum

    a pythonibus,

      Hpt. Gl. 504, 66.

  • Hi áxoden æt wyccum and æt wísum drýum,

      Homl. Skt. i. 2, 108.

  • Ða fǽnman ðe gewuniaþ onfón wiccan,

      L. Alf. 30; Th. i. 52, 10.

  • Ne áxa náne wicca[n] rǽdes

    nec sit qui pythones consulat nec divinos,

      Deut. 18, 11.
Etymology
[Symon þe wicche Simon Magus, Jul. 40, 9. Ðe wicches the magicians, Gen. and Ex. 3028. Uor ane wychche þet hette Symoun, Ayenb, 41, 28. Somme saide he was a wicche, Piers P. 18, 69. Wytche, wyche magus, sortilegus, Prompt. Parv. 526. Wyche hic sortilegus, Wülck. Gl. 652, 12 (15th cent.).]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wicca.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/35497.

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