necromancyn.

Brit.

/ˈnɛkrə(ʊ)mansi/, U.S.

/ˈnɛkrəˌmænsi/

Forms: late Middle English nycromancie, 1500s nicromancie, 1500s nycromansy, 1500s–1600s necromancie, 1500s– necromancy; Scottish pre-1700 necromanchy, pre-1700 necromancie, pre-1700 nicromancy, pre-1700 nicromansie, pre-1700 nycromancie, pre-1700 nycromancy, pre-1700 nycromansie.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin necromantīa.

Etymology: < classical Latin necromantīa evocation of the dead, a name for the part of the Odyssey (Book 11) describing Odysseus' visit to Hades (recorded as a variant of necyomantea necyomancy n. in some manuscripts of Pliny), in post-classical Latin also the art of predicting the future by supposed communication with the dead (3rd cent.) < Hellenistic Greek νεκρομαντεία the art of predicting the future by supposed communication with the dead (first in Origen, 3rd cent. a.d.) < ancient Greek νεκρο- necro- comb. form + μαντεία -mancy comb. form.In forms nicro-, nycro-, after the earlier nigromancy n.; forms with -e- are found from the mid 16th cent. Compare Middle French, French nécromancie (mid 16th cent.).

a. The art of predicting the future by supposed communication with the dead; (more generally) divination, sorcery, witchcraft, enchantment.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > necromancy

nigromancyc1330

nigromancea1393

necromancyc1456

egromancy?a1475

necromanty1560

psychomancy1572

necyomancy1623

necromancing1827

c1456 R. Pecock Bk. Faith (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 262 (MED) Soone aftir the flood of Noe..ther was leernyng and writyng of wicchecraft or of nycromancie.

1522 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte 693 It was by nycromansy, By carectes and coniuracyon.

1555 R. Eden tr. S. von Herberstein Rerum moscouiticarum commentarii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 298^v The great citie of Cambalu..was in maner destroyed by Necromancie.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 73 You by your Necromancy have disturb'd him, and rais'd his Ghost.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vii. 97 By his Skill in Necromancy, he hath a Power of calling whom he pleaseth from the Dead.

1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. 59 Jarl, a magician of Saxland, exhibits his feats of necromancy before Charlemagne.

1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations II. ii. iii. 94 One of the prohibited modes of divining was by necromancy.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. i. 60 A world of wandering theories..taken from necromancy, and all the imaginative sciences.

1897 B. Stoker Dracula xviii. 242 He [sc. a vampire] is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages; he have still the aids of necromancy, which is..the divination by the dead.

1928 Daily Express 10 Dec. 11/1 Their present-day descendants still remain under the spell of medieval German necromancy.

1956 Speculum 31 688 Petrarch was accused of necromancy, and the cardinal's persistent defense of the poet is a measure of the strength of his feeling for him.

1999 R. E. Guiley Encycl. Witches & Witchcraft (ed. 2) 45/2 In Vodoun necromancy practiced in Haiti, three lighted candles are placed at the foot of a cross at the grave selected for corpse-raising.

b. figurative and in extended use. Something resembling necromancy in nature or effect.

ΚΠ

1665 R. Boyle Disc. ii. ii, in Occas. Refl. sig. C2^v To be able, by an innocent kind of Necromancy, to consult the dead.

1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth I. 165 Much of this world's wisdom is acquired by necromancy; by consulting the oracular dead.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxv. 218 A dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil.

1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 6/1 Perhaps this fact has it significance for practitioners of the Freudian necromancy.

1995 NetGuide Sept. 127/2 The necromancy of the Internet is tempting.

2. As a count noun: an act of necromancy; (more generally) a spell.

ΚΠ

?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. 20^v Neuer had the sothsayers of Egypte..more subtile pointes of conueyaunce, wyth all their incantaciouns and necromancies.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xix. 134 All..sorts of southsayings and Nicromancies.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iv. 68 An account of a modern necromancy, which has been left us by the celebrated Benvenuto Cellini.

a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 79 Love, with all his necromancies, fled.

1891 E. Fawcett Songs of Doubt & Dream 282 You must win her by a necromancy Whose magic shall work marvels with her pride.

1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) iii. ii. 247 The moon worked her necromancies, hemming him in by mountains ten thousand feet high, through which there was no pass.

1997 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 25 June a11 Disney movies have supplied us with family values paganism in the form of good fairies, fairy godmothers, leprechauns, enchantments, necromancies, [etc.].

†3. With capital initial. A name formerly given to the part of the Odyssey (Book 11) describing Odysseus' visit to Hades. Obsolete.Also referred to as the Necyomancy (see necyomancy n.); now more usually called the Nekuia.

ΚΠ

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 548 The Necromancie of the Poët Homer. This picture Nicias held at so high a price, that [etc.].

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. Observ. 74 A place that lies between Cumæ and Baiæ, near the lake Avernus, in Italy; which, as Strabo remarks, is the scene of the Necromancy of Homer, according to the opinion of Antiquity.

1850 W. Mure Hist. Lang. & 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’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	necromancy
释义	necromancyn. Brit. /ˈnɛkrə(ʊ)mansi/, U.S. /ˈnɛkrəˌmænsi/ Forms: late Middle English nycromancie, 1500s nicromancie, 1500s nycromansy, 1500s–1600s necromancie, 1500s– necromancy; Scottish pre-1700 necromanchy, pre-1700 necromancie, pre-1700 nicromancy, pre-1700 nicromansie, pre-1700 nycromancie, pre-1700 nycromancy, pre-1700 nycromansie. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin necromantīa. Etymology: < classical Latin necromantīa evocation of the dead, a name for the part of the Odyssey (Book 11) describing Odysseus' visit to Hades (recorded as a variant of necyomantea necyomancy n. in some manuscripts of Pliny), in post-classical Latin also the art of predicting the future by supposed communication with the dead (3rd cent.) < Hellenistic Greek νεκρομαντεία the art of predicting the future by supposed communication with the dead (first in Origen, 3rd cent. a.d.) < ancient Greek νεκρο- necro- comb. form + μαντεία -mancy comb. form.In forms nicro-, nycro-, after the earlier nigromancy n.; forms with -e- are found from the mid 16th cent. Compare Middle French, French nécromancie (mid 16th cent.). 1. a. The art of predicting the future by supposed communication with the dead; (more generally) divination, sorcery, witchcraft, enchantment. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > necromancy nigromancyc1330 nigromancea1393 necromancyc1456 egromancy?a1475 necromanty1560 psychomancy1572 necyomancy1623 necromancing1827 c1456 R. Pecock Bk. Faith (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 262 (MED) Soone aftir the flood of Noe..ther was leernyng and writyng of wicchecraft or of nycromancie. 1522 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte 693 It was by nycromansy, By carectes and coniuracyon. 1555 R. Eden tr. S. von Herberstein Rerum moscouiticarum commentarii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 298^v The great citie of Cambalu..was in maner destroyed by Necromancie. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 73 You by your Necromancy have disturb'd him, and rais'd his Ghost. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vii. 97 By his Skill in Necromancy, he hath a Power of calling whom he pleaseth from the Dead. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. 59 Jarl, a magician of Saxland, exhibits his feats of necromancy before Charlemagne. 1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations II. ii. iii. 94 One of the prohibited modes of divining was by necromancy. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. i. 60 A world of wandering theories..taken from necromancy, and all the imaginative sciences. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xviii. 242 He [sc. a vampire] is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages; he have still the aids of necromancy, which is..the divination by the dead. 1928 Daily Express 10 Dec. 11/1 Their present-day descendants still remain under the spell of medieval German necromancy. 1956 Speculum 31 688 Petrarch was accused of necromancy, and the cardinal's persistent defense of the poet is a measure of the strength of his feeling for him. 1999 R. E. Guiley Encycl. Witches & Witchcraft (ed. 2) 45/2 In Vodoun necromancy practiced in Haiti, three lighted candles are placed at the foot of a cross at the grave selected for corpse-raising. b. figurative and in extended use. Something resembling necromancy in nature or effect. ΚΠ 1665 R. Boyle Disc. ii. ii, in Occas. Refl. sig. C2^v To be able, by an innocent kind of Necromancy, to consult the dead. 1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth I. 165 Much of this world's wisdom is acquired by necromancy; by consulting the oracular dead. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxv. 218 A dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil. 1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 6/1 Perhaps this fact has it significance for practitioners of the Freudian necromancy. 1995 NetGuide Sept. 127/2 The necromancy of the Internet is tempting. 2. As a count noun: an act of necromancy; (more generally) a spell. ΚΠ ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. 20^v Neuer had the sothsayers of Egypte..more subtile pointes of conueyaunce, wyth all their incantaciouns and necromancies. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xix. 134 All..sorts of southsayings and Nicromancies. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iv. 68 An account of a modern necromancy, which has been left us by the celebrated Benvenuto Cellini. a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 79 Love, with all his necromancies, fled. 1891 E. Fawcett Songs of Doubt & Dream 282 You must win her by a necromancy Whose magic shall work marvels with her pride. 1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) iii. ii. 247 The moon worked her necromancies, hemming him in by mountains ten thousand feet high, through which there was no pass. 1997 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 25 June a11 Disney movies have supplied us with family values paganism in the form of good fairies, fairy godmothers, leprechauns, enchantments, necromancies, [etc.]. †3. With capital initial. A name formerly given to the part of the Odyssey (Book 11) describing Odysseus' visit to Hades. Obsolete.Also referred to as the Necyomancy (see necyomancy n.); now more usually called the Nekuia. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 548 The Necromancie of the Poët Homer. This picture Nicias held at so high a price, that [etc.]. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. Observ. 74 A place that lies between Cumæ and Baiæ, near the lake Avernus, in Italy; which, as Strabo remarks, is the scene of the Necromancy of Homer, according to the opinion of Antiquity. 1850 W. Mure Hist. Lang. & 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’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1456
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