[f. BEWITCH + -ERY.]

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  1.  Bewitching action or influence; charm, fascination; witchery.

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1664.  H. More, Myst. Iniq., 281. There is something further observable in this golden Cup, wherein the force of its bewitchery may consist.

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a. 1716.  South, 12 Serm. (1717), III. 456. There is a certain bewitchery, or fascination in Words.

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1868.  Hawthorne, Amer. Note-Bks. (1879), II. 161. There was a great bewitchery in the idea.

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  2.  = BEWITCHMENT.

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1711.  Spect., No. 250, ¶ 7. Oblique vision … was anciently the mark of bewitchery and magical fascination.

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1727.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Falling-Sickn., Good Housewives took it for a Bewitchery of their Poultry.

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