venefex

venefex [LL], (in gl.) person who practises magical arts, sorcerer, witch. venenum ‥ et componitur hic et hec ~ex, -cis, unde in psalmis ‘et venefici incantatis sapienter’ [Psalm. lvii 6] Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 619; ~ex, mulier veneficiis intendens Ib. 626.