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occultists

noun

plural of occultist
as in sorcerers

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  1. sorcerers
  2. magicians
  3. necromancers
  4. mages
  5. conjurers
  6. witches
  7. seers
  8. diviners
Noun
  • The Fore said that the disease was caused by secret attacks from sorcerers.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The woods could be hiding places of witches and sorcerers, disguised as the old and feeble, but capable of summoning wonder and terrors, charms as well as curses.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
Definition of sorcerers
Noun
  • Whether magicians, thieves, or just fed up citizens, somebody has made an entire city’s worth of ALPRs vanish in the night.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The celebrated musicians, the eclectic writers, the artist troupes, the lumberjacks, the magicians.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026
Definition of magicians
Noun
  • Fans of dark storytelling will find cruel necromancers, derelict mansions and strange alchemies in this page-turning epic.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
Definition of necromancers
Noun
  • This young adult fantasy follows a 16-year-old who discovers a magical attack and realizes this new world of demons and mages has a connection to her mother’s death.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Wizards, or mages (as the group has commonly referred to Eleven), develop their powers using arcane magic to cast powerful spells.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
Definition of mages
Noun
  • Such ritual specialists have been called root doctors, conjure doctors, conjurers, or Hoodoos.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Their conjurers, who refuse to accept the rules of the real world, can also be great fun to read about.
    — Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
Definition of conjurers
Noun
  • Bier, Warners, and even Kidman and Bullock (who serve as producers) certainly didn’t expect their sister witches to seriously contend with a behemoth IP like Spider-Man.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2026
  • In order to meet 2026’s nostalgia quota, here’s a 28-years-later followup to the cult flop about margarita-loving sister witches starring Bullock and Nicole Kidman.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2026
Definition of witches
Noun
  • Not in seers, not in sibyls, not in spirits from the great beyond.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Laqueur’s book dwells on the way that canines often function in art—as seers of things that people miss.
    — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
Definition of seers
Noun
  • Ancient Chinese scholars made records of solar eclipses, and diviners made prophecies during these auspicious events.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of diviners
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