单词 | nigromancy |
释义 | nigromancyn. 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. 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). < n.c1330 |
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