wizarding

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The practice of magic, especially the magical work that a wizard does.

   After years of wizarding, the old hermit could call down rain with a word.

   The village paid her in eggs and cheese for a little wizarding now and then.

   Similarsorcery, magic, wizardry

   Note

   J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels made this plain formation, wizard plus -ing, popular in the late 1990s, but they did not coin it: Arthur Williams Marchmont's By Snare of Love already has it. Since then it often stands before a noun, as in a standard wizarding wage, where it means belonging to the world of wizards rather than the doing of magic.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of wizard.

   The sorcerer stood on the cliff, wizarding a storm out of a clear sky.

   They were wizarding late into the night, trying to break the curse.

   Note

   Both meanings of the verb share this form. Without an object it means working magic (they were wizarding late into the night); with one it means conjuring something up, as in wizarding gold out of thin air. That second use can stretch to anything produced as if by magic.

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