sortilege
Варианты произношения
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/ˈsɔːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/
Существительное
Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions.
Употребление- исчисляемое
- неисчисляемое
- Синонимы
- Примеры
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We have therefore summoned to our presence a Jewish woman, by name Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York — a woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries.
Orthodox believers […] were less happy about using sortilege to coerce God into taking decisions on their behalf.
Другие примеры (2)
‘Too much evil sortilege,’ Glad always says when someone suggests he open a franchise over Cheat Ridge.
People who faced difficult decisions or needed insight into the future would consult a diviner, who performed a ritual to locate an oracle in the codex and then interpreted the divinatory text. In Egypt and the wider Mediterranean world, this practice - sortilege - was both common and controversial.
Формы слова
sortileges