n. One who practices sorcery; a wizard. [Middle English sorser, sorcerer, from Old French sorcier, from Vulgar Latin *sortiārius, from Latin sors, sort-, lot, fortune; see ser-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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