Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An assibilated form of like.
- An obsolete assibilated form of like.
- Middle English forms of -ly.
- Middle English forms of -ly.
Wiktionary
- n. fantasy, roleplay A reanimated corpse or undead being.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Like.
- n. obsolete A dead body; a corpse.
Etymologies
- From Old English līċ, from Proto-Germanic *līkan, from Proto-Indo-European *līg-. Cognate with Dutch lijk, German Leiche, Swedish/Norwegian lik, Danish lig. Compare like, -like, -ly. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Malgana the Twistwood Lich (female goblin lich infernal sorcerer 11) *”
“The goblin lich in bits with the high kewl factor and low practicality factor from last round.”
“Freud has this whole riff about the German word for uncanny, unheimlich, which is literally un-home-ly, actually being something familiar made strange, familiar enough to “hit home”, but strange enough to be sufficiently distorted to be acceptable.”
“Becoming a lich is a pretty good prospect for the less-than-sane casters in Azeroth (and phylactery safe.”
“We fight a witch or something, and a lich or something.”
Fourth “Empire of Ashes” Session Summary Posted « Geek Related
“I have a 6 player game that gets hectic too and I find that a brief explanation that lets them know that the penny on the tiles is the bugbear, the quarter is the lich and the piece of tape is a wall solves a lot of problems for those who have been in la-la land for the 5 minutes leading up to the encounter.”
Fourth “Empire of Ashes” Session Summary Posted « Geek Related
“Love the H2G2 reference to little furry hats at the end there ... ill lich”
“They might also expect a return visit from an official with a search warrant wishing to verify the truth of the destruction assertion. ill lich”
“It, too, represents "quality" journalism that's really fundamental to democracy. ill lich”
Hypothetical peek into the feverish mind of Rupert Murdoch - Boing Boing
“The fact that anyone bothers to even argue with this post depresses me, but if you really need to think about it, substitute the word "Black" for the word "Albanian" ... ill lich replied to comment from nutbastard”
Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people? - Boing Boing
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lich’.
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Dungeons and Dragons
Would you like to join our party? We just started a new campaign.
For more general lists about role-playing games, see brandelion's RPG and lampbane's Tales of the Dread Gazebo.dungeons and dragons, d&d, elf, orc, halfling, drow, giant, troll, kobold, rpg, d20, human and 100 more...
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Gygax's Glossary
In hesitant beginning of a tribute to the man who—before Nabokov or Joyce or anyone 1000 times more exalted—infected me with a fever for language.
psionic, prismatic, gelatinous, dweomer, initiative, kobold, geas, shambling, gibbering, cuirass, halberd, ioun stone and 4 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Brinstar's Words
cobalt, obfuscate, archon, wii, sniper, arcane, celerity, visage, auspicious, ether, epidemic, lich and 138 more...
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Trump that synonym!
Better alternatives for common words.
ex cathedra, screed, de rigueur, palpable, wheedle, piebald, incongruity, cassandra, xantippe, ebullient, exuberant, fainéant and 178 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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arcane
arcane, lich, gargoyle, saturnine, sepulchre, thaumaturgy, hermetic, scrye, metaphysical, syzygy, apothecary, enchantment and 9 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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stumblepeach - words
miasma, neologism, snuggery, hickory, frieze, slant, conspicuous, trullo, wikiality, truthiness, sequitur, monolith and 34 more...
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i cast magic missile
a collection of terms fantastical and magical.
scrye, seer, minotaur, oracle, nymph, naiad, dryad, ensorcell, golem, puissance, vorpal, arcane and 23 more...
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Honorable and Esteemed Words
Some good ones
gaol, rogalian, antimony, lich, quaternion, unguent, moribund
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Words I Learned from WoW
WoW: Apparently kind of educational too.
slag, viscous, cabal, dredger, lich, maelstrom, cull, sunder
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lich.
knitandpurl "Is it this grim lich, which is writhing in its pit, lifting its lid with whitish limbs, rising, vivific, with ill will in its mind, victimizing kids timid with fright?"
Eunoia by Christian Bök (upgraded edition), p 54 May 21, 2010
whichbe In modern fantasy fiction, a lich (sometimes spelled liche, cognate to German Leiche "corpse") is a type of undead creature, usually formerly a powerful magician or king, who has used evil rituals to bind his intellect to his animated corpse and thereby achieve a perverse form of immortality. Liches are depicted as being clearly cadaverous (as opposed to the generally more appealing forms of vampires), their bodies desiccated or even completely skeletal. Liches are often depicted as holding power over hordes of lesser undead creatures, using them as their soldiers and servants, and thus are a threat both individually and as leaders of belligerent forces. (Wikipedia) May 28, 2008