Cacomagician

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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