sortilege — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Danh từ

1. Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions.

   Cách dùng

   • đếm được
   • không đếm được

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   sorcerythaumaturgywizardry

   Ví dụ

   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.

   Thêm ví dụ (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.