egromancy
egromancy is the alternative form of necromancy.
Meaning of necromancy
Noun
necromancy (countable and uncountable, plural necromancies)
- Divination involving the dead or death.
- And for to make this treatise the more pleasaunt and facill, I have put it in forme of a Dialogue, which I have diuided into three bookes: The first speaking of Magie in general, and Necromancie in special.1597, King James Daemonologie, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
- Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.
- Synonym of necroposting.
- Synonyms:
- necroposting
Origin of egromancy
Coined by Richard Francis Burton from Middle English forms of necromancy, such as egremauncey and egremauncye.
Questions about egromancy
- What is egromancy the alternative form of?
- Egromancy is the alternative form of necromancy.
Words near egromancy in the dictionary
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