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cacomagician

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Etymology

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From caco- +‎ magician.

Noun

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cacomagician (plural cacomagicians)

  1. (obsolete) A practitioner of wicked magic; an evil sorcerer.
    • 1878, Isaac D'Israeli, Amenities of Literature (Vol. 2):
      It is indeed remarkable that Bayle, Niceron, and other literary historians, have not ventured to lay their hands on this ark of philosophical science; too modest to dispute, or too geneous to attack: unlike the great adversary of Fludd, Père Mersenne, who denounced the Rosacrusian to Europe as a caco-magician, who had insured for himself perdition throughout eternity.