There was a man in that citee whos name was Symount, a witche.—Acts viii. 9. Wiclif.
Item, he is a witch, asking counsel at soothsayers.—Foxe, Book of Martyrs; Appeal against Boniface.
Then the king commanded to call together all the soothsayers, charmers, witches, and Caldees, for to shew the king his dream.—Dan. ii. 2. Coverdale.
Who can deny him a wisard or witch, who in the reign of Richard the Usurper foretold that upon the same stone where he dashed his spur riding toward Bosworth field he should dash his head in his return?—Cotta, The Trial of Witchcraft, p. 49.
Wizard. A title not necessarily used in times past with any dishonourable subaudition of perverted wisdom on his part to whom it was given, as is now the case.
Then Herod, calling the wisards privily, did narrowly search of them the time of the star’s appearing.—Matt. ii. 7. Sir J. Cheke.
When Jeremy his lamentation writ,
They thought the wizard quite out of his wit.
Drayton, Elegies, To Mr. G. Sandys.
See how from far upon the eastern road