| 释义 |
‖ grimoire|grimwar|
[Fr.; altered f. grammaire grammar.]
A magician's manual for invoking demons, etc.
1849W. H. Ainsworth Lancashire Witches III. iii. v. 201 A witch with a Bible! It should be a grimoire. 1891A. E. Waite Occult Sciences 55 The most noticeable feature of the Grimoires..is their utter futility. 1902Daily Chron. 9 July 3/2 A monstrous brood of ‘grimoires’ and ‘clavicles’. 1923Blackw. Mag. Aug. 153/2 The curé's argument almost legitimised the grimoire as a commentary on the Bible. 1926Chambers's Jrnl. July 460/1 The grimoires of the Middle Ages. 1945M. Summers Witchcraft & Black Magic v. 133 The Grimoire of Pope Honorius is pretended to be found in manuscript as early as the thirteenth century. 1967Punch 6 Dec. 854/1 One could fill a library with grimoires, ghost stories, studies of occult phenomena. |