witch 音标拼音: [w'ɪtʃ]
n . 巫婆,女巫
vt . 施巫术,迷惑
巫婆,女巫施巫术,迷惑
witch n 1 :
a female sorcerer or magician [
synonym : {
enchantress }, {
witch }]
2 :
a being (
usually female )
imagined to have special powers derived from the devil 3 :
a believer in Wicca [
synonym : {
Wiccan }, {
witch }]
4 :
an ugly evil -
looking old woman [
synonym : {
hag }, {
beldam },
{
beldame }, {
witch }, {
crone }]
v 1 :
cast a spell over someone or something ;
put a hex on someone or something [
synonym : {
hex }, {
bewitch }, {
glamour },
{
witch }, {
enchant }, {
jinx }]
Wicca \
Wic "
ca \ (
w [
i ^]
k "
k [.
a ]),
prop .
n . [
OE .
wicche wizard ,
AS .
wicce ,
fem .,
wicca ,
masc .;
see also {
witch }
and {
wicked }.]
1 .
A religion derived from pre -
Christian times ,
also called {
Witchcraft }[
4 ],
which practices a benevolent reverence for nature ,
and recognizes two deities ,
variously viewed as Mother &
Father ,
Goddess &
God ,
Female &
Male ,
etc .;
its practitioners are called Wiccans ,
Wiccas ,
or witches .
Since there is no central authority to propagate dogma ,
the beliefs and practices of Wiccans vary significantly .
[
PJC ]
Encouraged by court rulings recognizing witchcraft as a legal religion ,
an increasing number of books related to the subject ,
and the continuing cultural concern for the environment ,
Wicca --
as contemporary witchcraft is often called --
has been growing in the United States and abroad .
It is a major element in the expanding "
neo -
pagan "
movement whose members regard nature itself as charged with divinity . --
Gustav Niebuhr (
N .
Y .
Times ,
Oct .
31 ,
1999 ,
p .
1 )
[
PJC ]
"
I don '
t worship Satan ,
who I don '
t think exists ,
but I do pray to the Goddess of Creation ."
said Margot S .
Adler ,
a New York correspondent for National Public Radio and a Wiccan practitioner .
"
Wicca is not anti -
Christian or pro -
Christian ,
it '
s pre -
Christian ." --
Anthony Ramirez (
N .
Y .
Times Aug .
22 ,
1999 ,
p .
wk 2 )
[
PJC ]
Note :
Wicca is a ditheistic religion ,
also called Witchcraft ,
founded on the beliefs and doctrines of pre -
Roman Celts ,
including the reverence for nature and the belief in a universal balance .
Though frequently practiced in covens ,
solitary practitioners do exist .
The modern form of the religion was popularized in 1954 by Gerald Gardener '
s Witchcraft Today .
It is viewed as a form of neo -
paganism .
Wicca recognizes two deities ,
visualized as Mother &
Father ,
Goddess &
God ,
Female &
Male ,
etc .
These dieties are nameless ,
but many Wiccans adopt a name with which they refer to the two :
Diana is a popular name for the Goddess to take ,
among others such as Artemis ,
Isis ,
Morrigan ,
etc .
Some of her symbols are :
the moon ;
the ocean ;
a cauldron ;
and the labrys (
two -
headed axe ),
among others .
The God is of equal power to the Goddess ,
and takes on names such as Apollo ,
Odin ,
Lugh ,
etc .
A small number of his symbols are :
the sun ;
the sky ;
a horn (
or two horns );
and others .
Witchcraft is not a Christian denomination ;
there is no devil in its mythos ,
thus the devil cannot be worshiped ,
and the medieval view of Witches as Satan -
worshipers is erroneous .
Satanists are not Witches and Witches are not Satanists .
Both have a tendency to be offended when the two are confused .
In the Wiccan religion male Witches are not "
Warlocks ".
The term Warlock comes from Scottish ,
meaning '
oathbreaker ', '
traitor ',
or '
devil '.
Its application to male witches is of uncertain origin .
The Wiccan Rede , "
An it harm none ,
do what thou wilt "
comes in many variations .
All of them say the same thing , "
Do as you wish ,
just don '
t do anything to harm anyone ."
It is implied that '
anyone '
includes one '
s self .
Witches practice in groups called Covens or as solitary practitioners ,
and some practice "
magic ",
which is to say ,
they pray .
Since the one rule that Witches have requires that they can not do harm ,
harmful magic does not exist in Wicca .
In Wicca , "
magic "
is simply subtly altering small things ,
to gain a desired effect .
Wicca ,
sometimes called Neo -
Witchcraft ,
was revived in the 1950s ,
when the last laws against Witchcraft were repealed .
Gerald Gardner founded Gardnerian Wicca sometime after his book ,
Witchcraft Today ,
was published in 1954 .
Raymond Buckland ,
in America ,
did much the same that Gardner did in Europe --
stood up to the misconceptions about Witchcraft .
Two other books describing the modern practice of Wicca are :
Wicca :
A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner ,
by Scott Cunningham ,
Llewellyn Publications ,
1988 .
Buckland '
s Complete Book of Witchcraft ,
by Raymond Buckland ,
Llewellyn Publications ,
1975 .
A Web site devoted to elucidation of modern witchcraft is :
[
a href ="
http :]/
www .
witchvox .
com ">
Witchvox --
Cody Scott [
PJC ]
2 .
A practitioner of Wicca ,
also commonly called a {
Wiccan },
{
Wicca },
or {
witch } .
[
PJC ]
For at least one person who has seen "
The Blair Witch Project ",
the surprise hit movie of the summer did not so much terrify as infuriate .
One long slur against witches ,
said Selena Fox ,
a witch ,
or Wicca ,
as male and female American witches prefer to call themselves . --
Anthony Ramirez (
N .
Y .
Times ,
Aug .
22 ,
1999 ,
p .
wk 2 )
[
PJC ]
Witch \
Witch \,
n . [
OE .
wicche ,
AS .
wicce ,
fem .,
wicca ,
masc .;
perhaps the same word as AS .
w [
imac ]
tiga ,
w [
imac ]
tga ,
a soothsayer (
cf . {
Wiseacre });
cf .
Fries .
wikke ,
a witch ,
LG .
wikken to predict ,
Icel .
vitki a wizard ,
vitka to bewitch .]
[
1913 Webster ]
1 .
One who practices the black art ,
or magic ;
one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit ,
esp .
with the Devil ;
a sorcerer or sorceress ; --
now applied chiefly or only to women ,
but formerly used of men as well .
[
1913 Webster ]
There was a man in that city whose name was Simon ,
a witch . --
Wyclif (
Acts viii .
9 ).
[
1913 Webster ]
He can not abide the old woman of Brentford ;
he swears she '
s a witch . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
An ugly old woman ;
a hag . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
One who exercises more than common power of attraction ;
a charming or bewitching person ;
also ,
one given to mischief ; --
said especially of a woman or child .
[
Colloq .]
[
1913 Webster ]
4 . (
Geom .)
A certain curve of the third order ,
described by Maria Agnesi under the name {
versiera }.
[
1913 Webster ]
5 . (
Zool .)
The stormy petrel .
[
1913 Webster ]
6 .
A Wiccan ;
an adherent or practitioner of {
Wicca },
a religion which in different forms may be paganistic and nature -
oriented ,
or ditheistic .
The term witch applies to both male and female adherents in this sense .
[
PJC ]
{
Witch balls },
a name applied to the interwoven rolling masses of the stems of herbs ,
which are driven by the winds over the steppes of Tartary .
Cf . {
Tumbleweed }.
--
Maunder (
Treas .
of Bot .)
{
Witches '
besoms } (
Bot .),
tufted and distorted branches of the silver fir ,
caused by the attack of some fungus .
--
Maunder (
Treas .
of Bot .)
{
Witches '
butter } (
Bot .),
a name of several gelatinous cryptogamous plants ,
as {
Nostoc commune },
and {
Exidia glandulosa }.
See {
Nostoc }.
{
Witch grass } (
Bot .),
a kind of grass ({
Panicum capillare })
with minute spikelets on long ,
slender pedicels forming a light ,
open panicle .
{
Witch meal } (
Bot .),
vegetable sulphur .
See under {
Vegetable }.
[
1913 Webster ]
Witch \
Witch \,
n . [
Cf . {
Wick }
of a lamp .]
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat ,
and used as a taper . [
Prov .
Eng .]
[
1913 Webster ]
witch \
witch \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
witched };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
witching }.] [
AS .
wiccian .]
To bewitch ;
to fascinate ;
to enchant .
[
1913 Webster ]
[
I '
ll ]
witch sweet ladies with my words and looks .
--
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
Whether within us or without The spell of this illusion be That witches us to hear and see . --
Lowell .
[
1913 Webster ]
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "
witch ":
Jezebel ,
Mafioso ,
Weird Sisters ,
Young Turk ,
baboon ,
bag ,
bat ,
battle -
ax ,
beast ,
becharm ,
bedevil ,
beguile ,
beldam ,
berserk ,
berserker ,
bewitch ,
biddy ,
bitch ,
bitch -
kitty ,
blemish ,
blot ,
bomber ,
brute ,
captivate ,
carry away ,
cast a spell ,
cat ,
charm ,
common scold ,
coven ,
crone ,
dame ,
demon ,
demonize ,
devil ,
diabolize ,
dog ,
dowager ,
drab ,
dragon ,
enchant ,
enchantress ,
enrapture ,
enravish ,
enthrall ,
entrance ,
eyesore ,
fascinate ,
fiend ,
fire -
eater ,
firebrand ,
fishwife ,
fright ,
frump ,
fury ,
gargoyle ,
goon ,
gorilla ,
grandam ,
grandmother ,
granny ,
grimalkin ,
gunsel ,
hag ,
hardnose ,
harridan ,
hell -
raiser ,
hellcat ,
hellhag ,
hellhound ,
hellion ,
hex ,
holy terror ,
hood ,
hoodlum ,
hoodoo ,
hothead ,
hotspur ,
hypnotize ,
incendiary ,
infatuate ,
intrigue ,
jinx ,
killer ,
lamia ,
mad dog ,
madcap ,
mesmerize ,
mess ,
monster ,
monstrosity ,
mugger ,
no beauty ,
obsess ,
old battle -
ax ,
old dame ,
old girl ,
old granny ,
old lady ,
old trot ,
old wife ,
old woman ,
overlook ,
possess ,
rapist ,
revolutionary ,
savage ,
scarecrow ,
scold ,
shamaness ,
she -
devil ,
she -
wolf ,
shrew ,
sight ,
siren ,
sorceress ,
spell ,
spellbind ,
spitfire ,
teratism ,
termagant ,
terror ,
terrorist ,
tiger ,
tigress ,
tough ,
tough guy ,
transport ,
trot ,
ugly customer ,
ugly duckling ,
vamp ,
violent ,
virago ,
vixen ,
voodoo ,
war -
horse ,
wild beast ,
wildcat ,
witchwife ,
witchwoman ,
wolf
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