a. Now rare. [f. WIZARD sb. + -LY1.] Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling a wizard or wizardry.

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1588.  J. Harvey, Disc. Probl., 23. O wyzardly dreame of dreames!

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1596.  Nashe, Saffron Walden, N 2 b. No wizardly astronomer of them all ever dreamed of any such calculations.

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1613.  Purchas, Pilgrimage, VIII. iv. 629. By wisardly and deuillish practises to vp-hold his owne greatnesse.

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a. 1648.  Ld. Herbert, Hen. VIII. (1683), 404. Divers feigned Miracles, accompanied with some Wisardly Unsooth sayings.

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1652.  Gaule, Magastrom., 24. I count the Jewish wizzardly fable not here worth the relating.

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1893.  T. Hardy, in Scribner’s Mag., May, 597/2. A power which seemed sometimes to have a touch of the weird and wizardly in it.

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1913.  James Hooper, Souvenir of George Borrow Celebr., 14. Sergeant Bagge’s encounter with the wizardly creature.

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