witchlike

English

Etymology

From witch +‎ -like.

Adjective

witchlike (comparative more witchlike, superlative most witchlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a witch.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 120:
      Her sharp immovable eyes with irregular pupils, her projecting chin, her broad nose, and her yellow complexion gave Bertha's face a strange, Oriental, almost witchlike appearance; and this was not to be wondered at, because she was considered the first wise woman for a good many miles around.
    • 1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama‎[1], volume 25, →DOI, page 102 of 89–118:
      Catholic polemicist Nicholas Sander's De origine et progressu schismatis Anglicani, first published in 1585, had gone through its sixth European edition in 1610: this work promotes a perception of Anne as witchlike, detailing her prodigious promiscuity as well as her physical disfigurements (Warnicke 247).
    • 2007 January 26, Stephen Holden, “Once Upon a Time in a Very Familiar West”, in New York Times‎[2]:
      The second, Madame Louise (Anjelica Huston in her grifter mode), is a haughty, witchlike peddler in a horse-drawn carriage, hawking an alcoholic cure-all.
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