grimoiren.
A magician's manual for invoking demons, etc.
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1849 W. H. Ainsworth Lancashire Witches III. iii. v. 201 A witch with a Bible! It should be a grimoire.
1891 A. E. Waite Occult Sci. 55 The most noticeable feature of the Grimoires..is their utter futility.
1902 Daily Chron. 9 July 3/2 A monstrous brood of ‘grimoires’ and ‘clavicles’.
1923 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 153/2 The curé's argument almost legitimised the grimoire as a commentary on the Bible.
1926 Chambers's Jrnl. July 460/1 The grimoires of the Middle Ages.
1946 M. Summers Witchcraft & Black Magic v. 133 The Grimoire of Pope Honorius is pretended to be found in manuscript as early as the thirteenth century.
1967 Punch 6 Dec. 854/1 One could fill a library with grimoires, ghost stories, studies of occult phenomena.
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