wicchecraft
Middle English
Alternative forms
- wicchecreft, wychecreft, wicchecrafte, wich-crafte, wychecraft, wiche-craft, witchcraft, wycchecraft, wichecrafte
Etymology
From Old English wiccecræft; equivalent to wicche + -craft.
Pronunciation
Noun
wicchecraft (plural wicchecraftes)
- witchcraft, magic
- 1387, John Trevisa (transl.), chapter XLIV, in Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis:
- And in þat ilond is sortilege and wicchecraft [translating Lua error in Module:parameters at line 291: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "superstitiones, atque præstigia" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.] 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
- English: witchcraft
References
- “wicche-craft (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.