wizardly, a. Now rare.
(ˈwɪzədlɪ)
[f. wizard n. + -ly1.]
Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling a wizard or wizardry.
| 1588 J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 23 O wyzardly dreame of dreames! 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden N 2 b, No wizardly astronomer of them all ever dreamed of any such calculations. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage viii. iv. 629 By wisardly and deuillish practises to vp-hold his owne greatnesse. a 1648 Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 404 Divers feigned Miracles, accompanied with some Wisardly Unsooth sayings. 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 24, I count the Jewish wizzardly fable not here worth the relating. 1893 Scribner's Mag. May 597/2 A power which seemed sometimes to have a touch of the weird and wizardly in it. 1913 James Hooper Souvenir of George Borrow Celebr. 14 Sergeant Bagge's encounter with the wizardly creature. |