Sibyl vs Witch - What's the difference?
sibyl | witch |
A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the (w).
* : Act III, Scene IV:
* 1922' T. S. Eliot, ''The Wasteland'': Epigraph (translated from ' 61 (Petronius)' The Satyricon: Chapter 8, Lines 80 -86)
A person who practices witchcraft; specifically:
#A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
#*(rfdate) Shakespeare:
#*:He cannot abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch .
#(label) A Wiccan.
# A man who practices witchcraft.
#*:
#*:Some of the kynges had merueyl of Merlyns wordes and demed well that it shold be as he said / And som of hem lough hym to scorne / as kyng Lot / and mo other called hym a wytche / But thenne were they accorded with Merlyn that kynge Arthur shold come oute and speke with the kynges
#*(rfdate) Wyclif Bible (Acts viii. 9)
#*:There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch .
(label) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
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:(Shakespeare)
One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
(label) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera .
The stormy petrel.
Any of a number of flatfish:
# (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.
# (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
#, found near New Zealand.
(obsolete) To practise witchcraft
To bewitch
To dowse for water
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
English terms with homophones
As nouns the difference between sibyl and witch
is that sibyl is a pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl while witch is a person who practices witchcraft; specifically.As a proper noun Sibyl
is {{given name|female|from=Ancient Greek}}.As a verb witch is
to practise witchcraft.sibyl
English
Noun
(en noun)- A sibyl , that had number'd in the world
- The sun to course two hundred compasses,
- In her prophetic fury sew'd the work;
- I used to read these tales in Homer when I was a lad. Then the Sibyl'! I saw her at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys cried to her, ‘' Sibyl , what would you?' she'd answer, ‘I would die,'-- both of ‘em speaking Greek."
Anagrams
*witch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wicche, from (etyl) .Noun
(es)Synonyms
* (female magic user) wizardess, sorceress * (male magic user) wizard, sorcerer, warlock * (an ugly or unpleasant woman) See ,Derived terms
(terms derived from witch) * bewitch * cold as a witch's tit * man-witch * nonwitch * witch ball * witchcraft * witch doctor * witches' brew * witches' knickers * witches' Sabbath * witchfinder * witch grass * witch hazel * witch-hunt * witching hour * witchyExternal links
* (projectlink) * (Arnoglossus scapha) * (Arnoglossus scapha)Verb
(es)- 'It approaches the witching hour'.