| 释义 |
goety Obs. exc. arch.|ˈgəʊɪtɪ|
Also 7 goetie, (6 erron. geocie, 8 geoty).
[ad. Gr. γοητεία (f. γοητ-, γόης sorcerer, wizard, app. f. γοάειν to wail, cry, cf. quot. 1610), through med.L. goetia or F. goétie.]
Witchcraft or magic performed by the invocation and employment of evil spirits; necromancy.
The erroneous forms geocie, geoticke, etc. in this word and its cognates either proceeded from or suggested a mistaken etymological association with geo-.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 57 b, The partes of ceremoniall Magicke be Geocie, and Theurgie. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God (1620) 353 Goety worketh vpon the dead by inuocation, so called of the noyse that the practisers hereof make about graues. 1681H. Hallywell Melampron. vii. 51 Porphyry and some others did distinguish these two sorts [of Magic], so as to condemn indeed the grosser, which they called Magic, or Goety. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Geoty, geotick magick. 1751G. Lavington Enthus. Methodists & Papists (1754) ii. iii. 190 In the Academy of Salamanca they taught both Theurgy and Goety in the Publick Schools. 1855E. Smedley Occult Sci. 237 All that is properly called ‘goety’ or the ‘black magic’ of the middle ages. |