magery
English
Etymology 1
From mage + -ery.
Noun
magery (countable and uncountable, plural mageries)
- The practice of a mage; magic, sorcery.
- 1969, Avram Davidson, Peregrine: Primus, Wildside Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 44:
- Odd, […] very odd. Though, else my magery is worthless, we shall see odder yet, for these be odd times.
- 1990, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu, →ISBN, page 32:
- Village witches, though they might know many spells and charms and some of the great songs, were never trained in the High Arts or the principles of magery.
- 2005, Susan Carpenter, Curse of the Lyrestone, page 165:
- The memories began anew, and his need for the surge of magery within him drove him on.
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Etymology 2
Alternative forms.
Noun
magery
- Obsolete spelling of maugre [14th-15th c.]
Anagrams
- gaymer, meagry