occultist

noun

Definition of occultistnext
as in sorcerer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for occultist
  1. sorcerer
  2. magician
  3. magus
  4. voodoo
  5. enchanter
  6. mage
  7. witch
  8. conjurer
Noun
  • There is the love of Irish and Mexican dance traditions, love challenged by evil sorcerers and family dynamics and the passionate love that ends in tragedy.
    — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Players adopt alter egos, from warriors to sorcerers, who traverse worlds of mysticism and monsters.
    — Eric Francisco, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2025
Definition of sorcerer
Noun
  • Lochlan starts downing drinks at an alarming rate, and when Chloe hands them party drugs to take, the little magician swallows a pill without hesitation.
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 16 Mar. 2025
  • In January, another viral moment saw a woman hire a magician for her friend's 25th birthday party, leaving everyone in attendance thoroughly amused.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
Definition of magician
Noun
  • For years Johnson, the disheveled political magus, was the golden boy of Britain's Conservative Party.
    — Sam Kiley, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • But other students are there for Wittgenstein the sage, the magus, the riddler—the man who left Russell bewildered by a turn to mysticism at the end of a book that was supposed to be about logic.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
Definition of magus
Noun
  • By all metrics, Voodoo Macbeth was a smash, as critics fawned over the performances, the eye-popping costuming (above) and the voodoo drumming.
    — Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The victims, many of them elderly, were accused of using voodoo to harm the gang leader’s son.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 26 Feb. 2025
Definition of voodoo
Noun
  • Like Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum and other great enchanters before him, Miyazaki, now 82, delights in ushering us, alongside his young heroines and heroes, into ravishing storybook worlds that are at once scarily unquantifiable and eerily recognizable.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • It’s been generations since the rise of Dark Lord Morgoth, but armies led by the likes of Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel have been fighting Morgoth and his legions, including bloodthirsty orcs and the powerful enchanter Sauron.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
Definition of enchanter
Noun
  • Who's the mage whose major itinerary is making all Oz merrier?
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2024
  • This May 24, 2021 mage provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Susan Smith.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of mage
Noun
  • The witch hunting seems to have been sparked by children who claimed they were being taken from their beds to meet the devil by neighborhood women.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 9 Mar. 2025
  • But there are also cowboys and witches and werewolves and giant skeleton monsters.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of witch
Noun
  • Why are conjurers of the imaginary being quizzed about the essence of the real, or even the meaning of life?
    — Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, The Dial, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Shaun Grant’s script pulls off this trick with the smooth elan of a conjurer.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2025
Definition of conjurer
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