Hypertext Webster Gateway: "witchcraft"

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)

Witchcraft
(1 Sam. 15:23; 2 Kings 9:22; 2 Chr. 33:6; Micah 5:12; Nahum 3:4;
Gal. 5:20). In the popular sense of the word no mention is made
either of witches or of witchcraft in Scripture.

The "witch of En-dor" (1 Sam. 28) was a necromancer, i.e., one
who feigned to hold converse with the dead. The damsel with "a
spirit of divination" (Acts 16:16) was possessed by an evil
spirit, or, as the words are literally rendered, "having a
spirit, a pithon." The reference is to the heathen god Apollo,
who was regarded as the god of prophecy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Witchcraft \Witch"craft`\, n. [AS. wiccecr[ae]ft.]
1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments;
intercourse with evil spirits.

2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence.

He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue.
--Shak.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

witchcraft
n : the art of sorcery [syn: {witchery}]


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