1894 Brewer’s / W / Warlock
A wandering evil spirit; a wizard. (Anglo-Saxon, wær-loga, a deceiver, one who breaks his word. Satan is called in Scripture “the father of lies,” the arch-warlock.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.