magicianess

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Etymology

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From magician +‎ -ess.

Noun

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magicianess (plural magicianesses)

  1. (rare) A female magician.
    Synonym: magicienne
    • 1695, Samuel Morland, The Urim of Conscience … With Three Select Prayers for Private Families, →OCLC, page 44:
      The Magicianeſs Bacoti, keeps conſtant Correſpondence with the Devil (to whom, if ſhe has a Daughter, ſhe offers her as ſoon as ſhe is born,) and if any Mother happen to loſe a Child, ſhe makes her Addreſs to this Magicianeſs, who, by the beat of a Drum, pretends to Summon the Soul of that Child, and tell the Mother, whether its Condition in the other World be Good or otherwiſe.
    • 1898, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic, Chicago: Hahn & Whitehead, →OCLC, page 25:
      [] a Magician doth not, amongst learned men, signify a sorcerer or one that is superstitious or devilish; but a wise man, a priest, a prophet; and that the Sybils were Magicianesses, and therefore prophesied most clearly of Christ;
    • 2015, Renee Starr, You Are Woman, You Are Divine: The Modern Woman's Journey Back to The Goddess[1], Gardena: Over and Above Creative, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:
      For you see, Isis, my sister, the great and beautiful goddess of re-membering, whose true name is Auset, was the most magnificent magicianess in the whole of creation.

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