单词 | nigromancian |
释义 | † nigromanciann. Obsolete. = necromancer n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > sorcerer or magician > [noun] > necromancer nigromancera1387 nigromancianc1390 necromancer1547 necromantic?1548 necromantist1584 black-artist1593 nigromant1598 nigromantica1600 psychagogue1843 necromanta1849 c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 603 As doon thise false enchauntours or nygromanciens in bacyns ful of water. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 8154 Þat sheweþ well seynt Cypryene, He was a nygromancyene. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. 1468 (MED) Vixoses..Was maad first kyng off the gipciens, Where philisophres & nygromanciens Gan first tabounde. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccix Nygromancians, and fals wytches also Ar of this sort, folowynge lyke offence. 1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 106 They imagined him to be some Nycromancien, or by some Arte to haue enchaunted the disposition of the Lyon. a1617 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1827) 83 Till enquyre at men callit deuyners or negromanciens what suld becom of his sone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1390 |
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