The same would seem to apply to the law concerning duels, save that it approaches nearer to the common kind of sortilege, since no miraculous effect is expected thereupon, unless the combatants be very unequal in strength or skill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

I want to see some serious sortilege, not listen to a concert!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]

Then he had recourse to sortilege, and cast lots to decide the matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference

From various sources of information we know that the Druids had recourse to sortilege by fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

Now the actions of man that are required for sortilege and their results are not subject to the dispositions of the stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

Ginny interrupted a few times and spoke directly -- for instance, when a sortilege revealed that Val should toss away the piece of meteor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Luna]

I am also known as Tajekafen ben-Arubar, Associate of the Faith Necromantic, Anointed Assistant Alchemical, Odosa -- officially designated ordained sortilege affiliate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kingdoms of Light]

As early as the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, as I have suggested, Wordsworth offers examples of intersecting narrative sortilege in "We are Seven" and "Anecdote for Fathers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision] Reference

If we ascribe it to chance, and this can only take place in "sortilege of allotment," it does not seem to imply any vice other than vanity, as in the case of persons who, being unable to agree upon the division of something or other, are willing to draw lots for its division, thus leaving to chance what portion each is to receive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

He had recourse to every superstition of sortilege, clairvoyance, presentiment, and dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost 1898] Reference

And strangely enough it resembled the state of mind of a man who fears disenchantment more than sortilege.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within the Tides] Reference

Thot, who was the patron of sortilege, presided also over exorcisms, and the criminal acts which some committed in his name could have reparation made for them by others in his name.    From Wordnik.com.  [History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)] Reference

"popular" trials, seem to come under the head of sortilege, because something unknown is sought by their means.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

"augury"; while the third consists in doing something in order to discover the occult; and this belongs to "sortilege.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

Britain, except to the Druids, is thought most probable; and the secret of discovering things by looking into a globule of ink, which, it is asserted by some, the Egyptian jugglers still possess, may be a remnant of the ancient sortilege by means of the Druid's egg. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

Also there was a great sortilege-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

There may be witchcraft or sortilege in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk] Reference

Perhaps that was the secret of her sortilege.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Line; a confession] Reference

21: 21) that "the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the head of two ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows; he inquired of the idols, and consulted entrails": sortilege of this kind is unlawful, and forbidden by the canons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

Demonism furnishes devices of magic, sorcery, sortilege, divination, augury, oracles, etc., by which it is believed that men can get from the superior powers (spirits, demons, etc.) what they want, and can learn what is to be in the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference

To a few she repeated, with various forcible and fine turns of phrase, her previous answers, with here and there a new explanation; but to the great majority she referred simply to her former replies, or denied the charge, as follows: "The second article concerning sortilege, superstitious acts and divination, she denied, and in respect to adoration (i.e. allowing herself to be adored) said: If any kissed her hands or her garments, it was not by her will, and that she kept herself from it as much as she could; and the rest of the article she denies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeanne d'Arc]