rare. [f. prec. sb.]
† 1. trans. To call ‘wizard.’ Obs. nonce-use.
1603. Sir C. Heydon, Jud. Astrol., iii. 111. If M. Chamber had considered that Aristotle and the Grecians had their chiefe knowledge from these nations that were Astrologers, he could neuer (for shame) haue wisarded them. Ibid., vi. 179.
2. To practise wizardry upon, to bewitch; to drive away as by magic.
1898. A. Austin, Lamia’s Winter-quarters, 61. The last lingering trails of mist were gradually wizarded away.
1900. Folk-Lore (1901), June, 176–7. If yah be a wizard, wizard me.
So Wizarding vbl. sb., the practice of wizardry, witchcraft, or magic art.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., 337. Those … cheating Arts of Manteia or Wizarding, with which the world always hath been … abused.
1924. J. & C. J. Gordon, in Blackw. Mag., Nov., 650/1. When the people think that the wizard half of him is not sufficiently potent in spells, they get to wizarding on their own account.
