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necromancy|ˈnɛkrəʊmænsɪ|
Forms: α. 4–6 nygro-, 4–7 nigro-, 5–7 negro-; 4 nygre-, nigre-, 5 negre-; 4–6 nygra-, 4 nigra-. β. 6 nycro-, nicro-, 6– necro-. Also 4 -maunci, 4–5 -mauncy(e; 4–6 -mancye, -manci, 4–7 -mancie; 4–5 -mansi, 6 -sie, 4–6 -mansy(e, 5 -monseye.
[a. OF. nygromancie (more commonly -mance: see necromance) = Sp. nigromancia, It. nigro-, negromanzia, med.L. nigromantia (1212 in Du Cange), an alteration, by association with L. niger, nigr-, black (cf. black art), of L. necromantīa, ad. Gr. νεκροµαντεία, f. νεκρο- necro- + µαντεία divination, prophecy. From c 1550 the form necro- has been restored after Gr., as in F. nécromancie.
In Merlin (c 1450) pp. 375 and 508 the form egramauncye occurs; for an archaic 19th c. example see egromancy. This dropping of the n appears also in the OF. form igromancie.]
1. The pretended art of revealing future events, etc., by means of communication with the dead; more generally, magic, enchantment, conjuration.
αa1300Cursor M. 22112 Norijs him sal enchaunters, O nigramanci and o jugulors. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. xi. 158 Nigromancye and perimancie the pouke to rise maketh. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 867 Nygromansy, Geomansy, Magyk and Glotony. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) i. xxxvi. 77/2 He forbedeth..nygromancye, that is wytchecrafte done by deed bodyes. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 43 A passage of the bred of a spere length made by nygramancye. 1594? Greene Selimus Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 257 He may by diuellish Negromancie Procure my death. 1627Drayton Agincourt, etc. 118 This Pallace standeth in the Ayre, By Nigromancie placed there. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 161 We do forbid feigned Will⁓worship, Negromancy, Divinations, Witchcrafts. 1862S. Lucas Secularia 121 Nigromancy took its place among the regular callings.
β1522Skelton Why not to Court 693 It was by nycromansy, By carectes and coniuracyon. 1555Eden Decades 298 The great citie of Cambalu was in maner destroyed by necromancie. 1610B. Jonson Alch. i. iii, I would know..Which way I should make my dore, by necromancie. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 73 You by your Necromancy have disturb'd him, and rais'd his Ghost. 1726Swift Gulliver iii. vii, By his Skill in Necromancy he hath a Power of calling whom he pleaseth from the Dead. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. 59 Jarl, a magician of Saxland, exhibits his feats of necromancy before Charlemagne. 1819G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) II. 94 One of the prohibited modes of divining was by necromancy. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. i. 60 A world of wandering theories..taken from necromancy, and all the imaginative sciences.
transf.1665Boyle Occas. Refl., Disc. Occas. Medit. ii. ii, To be able, by an innocent kind of Necromancy, to consult the dead. 1827Hare Guesses (1859) 174 Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,—by consulting the oracular dead. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxv, A dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil.
b. With a and pl.
1550Bale Apol. 20 b, Neuer had the sothsayers of Egypte..more subtile pointes of conueyaunce, wyth all their incantaciouns and necromancies. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xix. 134 All..sorts of southsayings and Nicromancies. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. iv. 338 Her to the rocke hee brought In which hee oft before his Nigromancies wrought. 1831Brewster Nat. Magic iv. (1833) 68 An account of a modern necromancy, which has been left us by the celebrated Benvenuto Cellini. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 79 Love, with all his necromancies, fled.
2. Applied, after Gr. and L. use, to the part of the Odyssey describing Ulysses' visit to Hades.
1601Holland Pliny II. 548 The Necromancie of the Poët Homer. This picture Nicias held at so high a price, that [etc.]. 1850Mure Lit. Greece ii. x. §5 Nowhere, perhaps, does the contrast between the Ulysses of Homer and the Ulysses of the later fable..appear in a more prominent light than in the ‘Necromancy’. |