? Obs. [f. WARLOCK sb.1 + -RY.] The practice of magic (by men, or male beings); wizardry.
1817. Blackw. Mag., I. 53/2. He could maistly hae hauden his ain wi’ them an’ it hadna been for their warlockry. Ibid. (1818), II. 527. Hence proceed, in a great measure, the warlockry and fortune-telling abilities of the shrewd sagacious gypsies.
1822. Hogg, Siege of Roxburgh, i. Sin’ the Rhymer’s days, the spirit o’ true warlockry is gane.
1831. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXIX. 21. The shadows o’ a’ the eatables and drinkables that his wild warlockry cou’d hae conjured up.
1834. Hogg, in Fraser’s Mag., X. 404. Yes, witchcraft! Wicked warlockrye!
