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witchcraftical en · ADJ

Etymology

From witchcraft + -ical.

Meanings

1. (rare) Of or pertaining to witchcraft; witchcrafty.
   • She did it by remote control, with the aid of a very strange witchcraftical box that she found when she was nosing around out at the estate, looking for the will. 1983 November 14, John Bellairs, chapter 16, in The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt, Dial Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, pages 154-155:
   • And ſince, this many times ſerves, it is a wonder to me, That there be no greater herds, droves, flocks, ſwarmes————of witchcraftical criminals at every Aſſize. 1676, “It is a Butcherly, and Murtherous Opinion” (chapter XXIV), in The Doctrine of Devils, London, →OCLC, page 96:
   • He describes the present work as “a judicious book, that contains more good reason, true religion and right Christianity, than all those lumps and cartloads of luggage, that hath been fardled up, by all the faggeters of demonologistical winter-tales, and witchcraftical legendaries, since they first begun to foul clean paper.” 1812 October 14, Vermiculus, “Book-Worm.–.No. IV”, in The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, volume VII, number LXXXII, United Kingdom, →OCLC, page 622:

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