Cacomagician
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A practitioner of wicked magic; an evil sorcerer. obsolete
"It is indeed remarkable that Bayle, Niceron, and other literary historians, have not ventured to lay their hands on this ark of philosophical science; too modest to dispute, or too geneous to attack: unlike the great adversary of Fludd, Père Mersenne, who denounced the Rosacrusian to Europe as a caco-magician, who had insured for himself perdition throughout eternity."
Example
More examples"It is indeed remarkable that Bayle, Niceron, and other literary historians, have not ventured to lay their hands on this ark of philosophical science; too modest to dispute, or too geneous to attack: unlike the great adversary of Fludd, Père Mersenne, who denounced the Rosacrusian to Europe as a caco-magician, who had insured for himself perdition throughout eternity."
Etymology
From caco- + magician.
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