sorcelled

English

Verb

sorcelled

1. (rare) simple past and past participle of sorcell: alternative form of ensorcelled (“bewitched, enchanted”)
   • 1923, William Alexander Percy, “The Pilgrim of the Upland Meadows”, in William Stanley Braithwaite, editor, Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1922, Small, Maynard & Company, page 158:

     It blows above the blue
     Far-vistaed Paphian sea,
     Or so the woman said
     Whose green eyes ’sorcelled me.

   • 1973, John Gardner, Jason and Medeia, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 208:

     (She'd seen him, a shadowy form in her sorcelled mirror, seated with his nobles, preparing his treacherous stroke.)

   • 1981, A.A. Attanasio, Radix, Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 116:

     A sorcelled mist clouded her mind, and the sounds of the vehement flies and the bated breathing of those around her folded back.

   • 1985, Justin Leiber, The Sword and the Eye, TOR, →ISBN, page 156:

     And, though Wirt had assured her that the Lothians would not come araiding until the harvest was done and that some weeks in the future, she worried that Wirt should be caught up by some fennish ague on the road, or have the pox from some Lothian slattern, or be sorcelled by demons of the waste, or be left as a lonely sentinel while the rest of the garrison returned.

   • 1999, Barbara Hambly, Dragonshadow, Del Rey, →ISBN, page 199:

     Anythin' that'd hold water could be sorcelled into a gate.

   • 2008, Lois McMaster Bujold, Passage (The Sharing Knife; 3), HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 345:

     "That Lake-walker. He's sorcelled me all up. I can't hardly think, these days."

   • 2010, M. K. Hobson, The Native Star, Spectra, →ISBN, page 24:

     Corpse Switches controlled the zombie miners […] The zombie workers had been paupers, criminals, and other dangerous and unsavory types. Certainly not the sorts one wanted roaming the mountains without the control of a properly sorcelled Corpse Switch.

   • 2012, Andrew Prentice, Jonathan Weil, Black Arts, Random House, →ISBN, page 402:

     He'd come in here – come into Sharkwell's own, private chambers – sorcelled him in his sleep...

   • 2014, Karen Miller, The Falcon Throne, Orbit, →ISBN, page 585:

     So the ink she'd been making was sorcelled to weaken, not kill.