sorcerous

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English

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Etymology

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From sorcery +‎ -ous.

Adjective

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sorcerous (not comparable)

  1. Similar to, or involving, sorcery.
    • 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[1], archived from the original on 20 September 2018:
      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 []
    • 2019 October 10, Simon Reynolds, “The Rise of Conceptronica”, in Pitchfork[2]:
      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.