warlock

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An' syne, wi' the folk comin' to spier for 'im an' swarmin' ower the kirkyaird, ye'd think a warlock was aboot.

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  1. noun A male witch, sorcerer, wizard, or demon.

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  • Some people took it into their heads that Choate was a wizard or a warlock, that he came from a long line of black magicians. —  FSF,June2006
  • This warlock was in league with the humans and had only helped the demon leader under threat of grievous injury. —  ARTEMIS FOWL is a child prodigy from Ireland who has dedicated his brilliant mind to criminal activities
  • Magical? 'If you are a warlock, then you should really be on the other side, with your relative. —  ARTEMIS FOWL is a child prodigy from Ireland who has dedicated his brilliant mind to criminal activities
  • He also remained on board in hopes of getting to know the warlock, and perhaps even learning a little of this strange new school of magic that required none of the rituals and paraphernalia of wizardry. —  With A Single Spell
  • One day the good burghers and honest townsfolk of Northampton will burn Alan as a warlock, and it will be a great loss to the world. —  Smoke and Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman.
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  1. Middle English warloghe, from Old English wǣrloga, oath-breaker : wǣr, pledge; see wērə-o- in Indo-European roots + -loga, liar (from lēogan, to lie; see leugh- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Also warluck; a Scots form, preserving the orig. guttural (the reg. modern English form would be *warlow), from Middle English warloghe, warlaghe, werlaghe. warlow, warlowe, warlaw; warlawe, from Anglo-Saxon wæmacr;loga (= Old High German wārlogo), a traitor, deceiver, liar, truce-breaker, from wæmacr;r, a covenant, truce, compact, the truth (cf. wæmacr;r-leás, truthless, false), + loga, a liar, from leógan (past participle logen), lie: see very and lie.
  2. Middle English warlok, warloc; from war- (uncertain) + lock.
 

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