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单词 nigromancy
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nigromancyn.

Brit. /ˈnɪɡrə(ʊ)mansi/, U.S. /ˈnɪɡrəˌmænsi/, Caribbean English /ˈniːɡroːˌmansi/, /ˈniːɡraˌmansi/
Forms: Middle English neagromancye, Middle English negramency, Middle English negremancy, Middle English negremauncye, Middle English negremonscye, Middle English negromancye, Middle English nigermancy, Middle English nigermansye, Middle English nigramanci, Middle English nigramancie, Middle English nigramauncie, Middle English nigramauncy, Middle English nigremancye, Middle English nigremansi, Middle English nigremansy, Middle English nigremounchys (transmission error), Middle English nigrimancye, Middle English nigromancye, Middle English nigromansy, Middle English nigromaunsy, Middle English nigrymancye, Middle English nygomauncy (transmission error), Middle English nygramancie, Middle English nygramansi, Middle English nygramansye, Middle English nygramauncy, Middle English nygramencye, Middle English nygremancy, Middle English nygremansye, Middle English nygremauncy, Middle English nygremauncye, Middle English nygremoncye, Middle English nygrimancie, Middle English nygromansye, Middle English nygromantsye, Middle English nygromaunci, Middle English nygromauncy, Middle English nygromauncye, Middle English nygrymancy, Middle English nygrymancye, Middle English–1500s nygromancie, Middle English–1500s nygromancy, Middle English–1500s nygromancye, Middle English–1500s nygromansy, Middle English–1600s nigromancie, Middle English–1600s 1800s– nigromancy, 1500s nigromanci, 1500s nigromansye, 1500s nygramancye, 1500s nygromanycye, 1500s–1600s negromancie, 1500s–1700s negromancy; Scottish pre-1700 nagramisse, pre-1700 negromancie, pre-1700 nigramansy, pre-1700 nigromancie, pre-1700 nigromansie, pre-1700 nygramancy, pre-1700 nygramansy, pre-1700 nygramyce, pre-1700 nygramyssy, pre-1700 nygromancy.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French nigremancie, nigromancie, négromancie.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman nigremancie, nigromancie (end of the 13th cent.) and Middle French nigromancie, nygromancie (1378), négromancie (1572), alteration (with substitution of suffix -ie -y suffix3) of nigromance nigromance n., probably after post-classical Latin nigromantia (see nigromance n.). Compare Old Occitan nigromansia (13th cent.), Spanish nigromancia (c1250; also negromancia (1495)), Italian negromanzia (late 13th cent.), †nigromanzia (14th cent.), Portuguese nigromancia (14th cent.). Compare also Middle Dutch nigromantie, nigramantie, ingromantie, Middle Low German nigromancīe, nigromantīe, Middle High German nigromanzīe, nigromanzī.For the forms agremauncey , egramauncye and an archaic 19th-cent. example see egromancy n. (see N n.). Compare the Middle French form ingromancie (c1375).
Now historical and Caribbean.
a. = necromancy n. 1a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > necromancy
nigromancyc1330
nigromancea1393
necromancyc1456
egromancy?a1475
necromanty1560
psychomancy1572
necyomancy1623
necromancing1827
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) 1832 (MED) Uirgil was whilom a clerk Þat coude of nigramancie werk.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 22112 Norijs him [sc. Antichrist] sal enchaunters, O nigramanci and o jugulors..Of all falshed þat sal him fill.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. xi. 161 Nigromancie & permansie þe pouke to reisen.
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xxxvi. 77/2 He forbedeth..nygromancye, that is wytchecrafte done by deed bodyes.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 867 (MED) Som he refusyd..These were her names: fyrst, Nygromansy, Geomansy, Magyk, and Glotony, [etc.].
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xviii. sig. Ciii A passage of the bred of a spere length made by nygramancye.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. A2 Glutted more with learnings golden gifts, He surfetts vpon cursed Negromancy.
1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. G2v He may by diuellish Negromancie Procure my death.
1627 M. Drayton Nimphidia in Battaile Agincourt 118 This Pallace standeth in the Ayre, By Nigromancie placed there.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 161 in Justice Vindicated We do forbid feigned Will-worship, Negromancy, Divinations, Witchcrafts.
1726 C. Johnson Female Fortune-teller ii. 34 Shall I instruct you by the Rules of Astronomy, Prophecy,..Chiromancy, Negromancy.
1862 S. Lucas Secularia 121 Nigromancy took its place among the regular callings.
1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xxxi. 388 Yet was it apparent to one so deeply learned in nigromancy and secrets astronomical that this thing was fatal.
1964 Proc. Royal Soc. 280 457 Outsiders..will ask whether such a programme could not just as well have fitted Renaissance nigromancy, with its system of recipes.
1988 E. Lovelace Brief Conversation i. 114 You know I don't believe in the negromancy business.
b. = necromancy n. 1b. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion iv. 62 Her to the Rocke hee brought, In which hee oft before his Nigromancies wrought.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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