Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
wizard .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
wizard .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
wizard .
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Examples
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I dunno, the "wisard of os" :D I suppose it would be possible to pronounce it like Dave-Ose rhymes with nose too...
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Now these two lines consist in a senseless plagiarism from the counterfeited madness of Edgar in Lear, who, in imitation of the gypsy incantations, puns on the old word mair, a hag; and the no less senseless adoption of Dryden's forest fiend, and the wisard stream by which Milton, in his Lycidas, so finely characterizes the spreading
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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