"planet-ruler" meaning in English

See planet-ruler in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: planet-rulers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} planet-ruler (plural planet-rulers)
  1. (now chiefly historical) A white witch. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-planet-ruler-en-noun-VS-ydd0M Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for planet-ruler meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "planet-rulers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "planet-ruler (plural planet-rulers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Edwin Waugh, Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities, page 25",
          "text": "There is a little fold, called ‘Prickshaw,’ in this township of Spotland, which fold was the home of a notable country astrologer, in Tim Bobbin's time, called ‘Prickshaw Witch.’ Tim tells a humourous story in his works, about an adventure he had with this Prickshaw planet-ruler, at the old Angel Inn, in Rochdale.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 614",
          "text": "In the late nineteenth century white witches were still sometimes known as ‘planet-rulers’.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Owen Davies, Murder, Magic, Madness, page 35",
          "text": "Other ‘planet rulers’, who may or may not have extended their services beyond astrology and herbalism were James Trenham and Alfred Broughton.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A white witch."
      ],
      "id": "en-planet-ruler-en-noun-VS-ydd0M",
      "links": [
        [
          "white witch",
          "white witch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now chiefly historical) A white witch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "planet-ruler"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "planet-rulers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "planet-ruler (plural planet-rulers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Edwin Waugh, Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities, page 25",
          "text": "There is a little fold, called ‘Prickshaw,’ in this township of Spotland, which fold was the home of a notable country astrologer, in Tim Bobbin's time, called ‘Prickshaw Witch.’ Tim tells a humourous story in his works, about an adventure he had with this Prickshaw planet-ruler, at the old Angel Inn, in Rochdale.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 614",
          "text": "In the late nineteenth century white witches were still sometimes known as ‘planet-rulers’.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Owen Davies, Murder, Magic, Madness, page 35",
          "text": "Other ‘planet rulers’, who may or may not have extended their services beyond astrology and herbalism were James Trenham and Alfred Broughton.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A white witch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "white witch",
          "white witch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now chiefly historical) A white witch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "planet-ruler"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.