incantatrix

incantatrix [LL] , a (pagan) sorceress. b witch. a si sage vel ~ices [AS: wiccean oððe wigleras], venefice ‥ vel meretrices, ‥ (Quad.) GAS 311 (cf. ib.: [Inst. Cnut.] incantatores et ~ices).  b quid mirum si anus demonica ~ix est? Adel. QN 58; de muliere ~ice que mansit in Berkeleya Leg. Ant. Lond. app. 179 (cf. W. Malm. GR II 204); narrat Willelmus ‥ de duabus ~icibus [Trevisa:wicches], que ‥ hospitem ‥ in aliquod animal vertebant Higd. II 25 p. 424 (cf. W. Malm. GR II 171: de aniculis que juvenem asinum videri fecerunt); s1441 quedam phitonissa et ~ix combusta Chr. Hen. VI & Ed. IV 149; a charmer, incantator, ~ix, carminator, carminatrix CathA; a wyche, fitonissa, maleficus, ~ix Ib.; 1574, 1588 (v. fascinatrix).