Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of sortilege.
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- adjective Pertaining to sortilege.
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- adjective Pertaining to
sortilege ,sorcerous
Etymologies
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Examples
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Apart from this cause, however, the result of sortilegious acts must needs be ascribed to chance, or to some directing spiritual cause.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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To many of the early observers the observances were nothing more than meaningless mummeries; to some they were sacrilegious, to others sortilegious; to the more careful students, like Carver, whose notes are of especial value by reason of the author’s clear insight into the Indian character, they were invocations, expiations, propitiations, expressing profound and overpowering devotion.
The Siouan Indians 1882
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