dwimmercraft

noun
/ˈdwɪməˌkɹɑːft/UK/ˈdwɪmɚˌkɹæft/US

Etymology

From Middle English dwimmer-craft, dwemercraft, from Old English dweomorcræft (“magical arts, sorcery”), equivalent to dwimmer + -craft.

  1. inherited from dweomorcræft
  2. inherited from dwimmer-craft

Definitions

  1. The art of illusion

    The art of illusion; the art of magic; sorcery; magic.

    • He had walked the wilds of Imokoi before, he had pierced rakshas illusions, seenthrough the mist of demonic dwimmer-craft centuries ago.
    • The soldiers peered into the deep dark shaft In which lay the monk with tonsorshorn / A victim of the sorcerous lady's dwimmer craft / […]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA