• Egromancy

    Origin

    Coined by Sir Richard Burton from Middle English forms of necromancy, such as egremauncey and egremauncye.

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    Noun

    egromancy

    (uncountable)
      • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Then she stood up; and, pronouncing some word to me unintelligible, she said: — By virtue of my egromancy become thou half stone and half man; whereupon I became what thou seest, unable to rise or sit, and neither dead nor alive.
      • 1922, E.R. Eddison, The Worm OuroborosWhereby I know that this twelfth King of the house of Gorice in Carcë shall be a most crafty warlock ... who by the might of his egromancy and the sword of Witchland shall exceed all earthly powers that be.

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