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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 326 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WARLOCK , a wizard, sorcerer or magician (see MAGIC). The word in O. Eng. is wcerloga, literally "a liar against the truth," from wet., truth, cognate with See also:

Lat. verism (cf. Ger. wahr), and Toga, liar, from Mogan, to See also:lie (cf. Ger. lugen). It was thus used with the meaning of a traitor, deceiver, a breaker of a truce. In M. Eng. it is found as a name for the See also:devil (warloghe), the See also:arch liar and deceiver. The use of the word for a sorcerer or wizard, one whose magic See also:powers are gained by his See also:league with the devil, seems to be a See also:northern See also:English or Scottish use.

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