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witchcraft |
3 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: witchcraft n : the art of sorcery [syn: {witchery}] 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.
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