incantator

incantātor, ōris, m. [incanto],

• an enchanter, wizard (post-class.), Tert. Idol. 9; Isid. 8, 9, 15; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 1, 2.

incantātor, ōris, m. (incanto), der Zauberer, Tert. de idol. 9. Porphyr. Hor. ep. 2, 2, 209. Augustin. serm. 376, 4; quaest. in genes. 2. qu. 22 u. 23. Vulg. deut. 18, 11 u.a. Isid. orig. 8, 9, 15. Schol. Bern. Verg. ecl. 8, 71.

incantator [LL] , a (pagan) sorcerer. b witch, wizard, one who uses magic arts. c (w. ref. to Sirach xii 13) snake-charmer. a c738 ~ores et veneficos ‥ respuentes (Lit. Papae) Ep. Bonif. 43; per aruspices et divinos atque ~ores captivos se diabolo tradentes Egb. Dial. 410; 786 aruspices et ~ores, divinos, veneficos Ep. Alcuin. 3 p. 21; ~ores autem, magos, phithonicos et veneficos necne idolorum cultores accriter oportet constringere (6 Æþelred) GAS 249; ~ores et incantatrices et malefici aut apertae meretrices ‥ de regno nostro expellantur (Inst. Cnut.) GAS 311.  b ~ores sunt qui artem verbis exercent J. Sal. Pol. 407C; s1287 per quendam ~orem diabolus coactus cuidam puero apparuit, et urnas et navem et domum cum immenso auro ostendit Ann. Worc. 495; 1406 quod quamplures sortilegi, magici, ~ores, nigromantici, divinitores, arioli, et phitones infra diocesim vestram existunt, qui diversa horribilia et detestabilia indies perpetrant Foed. VIII 427; qui suis blandiciis et adulacionibus venenosis, tanquam ~or nequissimus, taliter credenciam adhibuerunt Plusc. VIII 11.  c quis medebitur ~ori a serpente percusso? cujus dicti sensus est, quis emendat doctorem a diabolo deceptum? Bede Sam. 566; si percussus fuerit ~or a serpente, quis medebitur ei? P. Blois Ep. 13. 40D; sed quis miserebitur ~ori a serpente percusso? M. Par. Maj. V 137.

incantātŏr, ōris, m. (incanto), enchanteur : Tert. Idol. 9 ; Isid. Orig. 8, 9, 15 || -tātrīx, īcis, f. , sorcière, enchanteresse : Ps. Cypr. Dupl. Mart. 35.