wicchecraft
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- wicche craft(e), wicchecrafte, wicchecreft, wich-crafte, wiche-craft, wichecrafte, witchcraft, wycche crauffte, wycchecraft, wychecraft, wychecreft, wytchecraft
Etymology[edit]
From Old English wiccecræft; equivalent to wicche + -craft.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
wicchecraft (plural wicchecraftes)
- witchcraft, magic
- 1387, chapter XLIV, in John Trevisa, transl., Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis:
- And in þat ilond is sortilege and wicchecraft [translating superstitiones, atque præstigia] i-vsed. For wommen þere selliþ schipmen wynde, as it were i-closed vnder þre knottes of þrede, so þat þe more wynd he wol haue, he wil vnknette þe mo knottes.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- spell, a particular instance of witchcraft
- enchantment; the result of witchcraft
Descendants[edit]
- English: witchcraft
References[edit]
- “wicche-craft, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.