单词 | goety |
释义 | goetyn. Obsolete exc. archaic. Witchcraft or magic performed by the invocation and employment of evil spirits; necromancy. The forms geocie, geoticke, etc. in this word and its cognates either proceeded from or suggested a mistaken etymological association with geo- comb. form. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > involving demons or black magic devilshineOE artemagea1393 art magica1393 devilry1487 goety1569 black art1572 black magic1590 diabolism1614 demonomancy1652 goetic1727 diablerie1751 demonomagy1765 demonurgy1797 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 57 b The partes of ceremoniall Magicke be Geocie, and Theurgie. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. ix. 372 Goetie worketh vpon the dead by inuocation, so called of the noyse that the practisers hereof make about graues. 1681 H. Hallywell Melampronoea vii. 51 Porphyry and some others did distinguish these two sorts [of magic arts], so as to condemn indeed the grosser, which they called Magic or Goety. 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Geoty, geotick magick. 1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 244 In the Academy of Salamanca they taught both Theurgy and Goety in the Publick Schools. 1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 237 All that is properly called ‘goety’ or the ‘black magic’ of the middle ages. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1569 |
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