goety
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin goetia, from Ancient Greek γοητεία (goēteía, “witchcraft”), from γόης (góēs, “sorceror”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
goety (uncountable)
- (obsolete) witchcraft, demonic magic, necromancy
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":
- The confused and high-piled litter of manuscripts, volumes, notebooks on his writing-table had seemingly lain untouched by anything but his own hand; and his bookshelves, with their bizarre and terrifical array of authorities on diabolism, necromancy, goety, on all the ridiculed or outlawed sciences, were undisturbed and intact.
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":