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English
Etymology
Coined by Richard Francis Burton from Middle English forms of necromancy, such as egremauncey and egremauncye.
Noun
egromancy (uncountable)
- Alternative form of necromancy.
1885–1888, Richard F Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), : Burton Club , →OCLC: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, chapter 39, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape , →OCLC:Whereby I know that this twelfth King of the house of Gorice in Carcë shall be a most crafty warlock, full of guiles and wiles, who by the might of his egromancy and the sword of Witchland shall exceed all earthly powers that be.
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