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sorcerer(dictionary)
Sorcerer's Apprentice, the(dictionary)

sorcerer (iou)



sorcerer noun. LME.
[from Old & mod. French sorcier ult. from Latin sort- sors lot: see -ER2.]
A person claiming magic powers, a practitioner of sorcery; a wizard, a magician.
sorcerer's apprentice [translating French l'apprenti sorcier, a symphonic poem by Paul Dukas (1897) after der Zauberlehrling, a ballad by Goethe (1797)] a person instigating but being unable to control a process etc.