Now rare. Also 5 sortyloger, -leger. [See prec. and -ER. The form in -loger is based upon the med.L. sortilogus for sortilegus.] One who divines, chooses or settles by drawing lots or otherwise; a diviner, fortune-teller.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 54. Fraudars, misdoars, sortylogers. Ibid., 97. Sortilegeris, and oþer þat are put in þe general sentens and cursing of þe kirk.
1483. Caxton, Cato, F ij. Often God permytteth and suffreth that, that the sortylegers and devynours maken to come.
1635. Heywood, Hierarchy, I. Comm. 47. We read of three sorts of these Sortilegers or Fortune-tellers. Ibid., VII. Comm. 473. Now to speake of those Sorteligers and the effects of their Art.
1864. A. Leighton, Myst. Leg. Edinb. (1886), 224. All which signs seemed only the opportunity of the devout sortileger, who put her hand upon the Bible.
