sorcerous en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English sorcery Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English sorcerous From sorcery + -ous.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Similar to, or involving, sorcery.
Part toy box and part cabinet of curiosities for a young misfit finally finding his tribe, the house has competition only from Black, who always excels in roles that let him play an excitable kid in a grown man’s body, and does so here as the bumbling, sorcerous Uncle Jonathan, forever knocking things over[…]
2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2018:That record was about the seductive power of “the aesthetics of wealth”—fashion runways, status brands, velvet-rope glamour—with the sorcerous allure of artifice and illusion seemingly left unchallenged.
2019 October 10, Simon Reynolds, “The Rise of Conceptronica”, in Pitchfork:
Deriveds
Synonyms
witching · magical · mystical · sortilegious · sorcerous · thaumaturgic · mystical · numinous · thaumaturgic · sortilegious · mystic