nigromancy
English
Alternative forms
alternative forms
- 16th century:
- igramansie
- igramansy
- igrimansie
- nagramisse
- negromancie
- nicromansie
- nicromancy
- nigomancy
- nigramansy
- nigromansie
- nycromancie
- nycromancy
- nygramyce
- nygramyssy
- nygromansie
Middle English:
alternative forms
- 14th century:
- nigromancie
- negromancy
- nigromance
- nigromancie
- nygromancy
- negremancie
- negremaunce
- nigramace
- nigramanci
- nigramancie
- nigramansi
- nigramansy
- nigramauncie
- nigramauncy
- nigremansi
- nigromaunc
- nigromaunce
- nygremancy
- nygremauncy
- nygremauncye
- nygremounchys
- nygromancie
- nygromancye
- nygromaunce
- nygromaunci
- nygromauncy
- nygrymancy
- 15th century:
- egremauncey
- egremauncye
- neagromancye
- negramency
- negremauncie
- negremauncye
- negremoncye
- negromancye
- nigermansye
- nigramansy
- nigremancye
- nigremansy
- nigromancye
- nigromansy
- nigromaunsy
- nigrymancye
- nygomauncy
- nygramance
- nygramancie
- nygramancy
- nygramancye
- nygramansi
- nygramansy
- nygramansye
- nygramauncy
- nygramencye
- nygremansye
- nygremoncye
- nygromancye
- nygromansy
- nygromansye
- nygromantsye
- nygromauncye
- nygrymancye
Etymology
From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman nigremancie and the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French nigromancie, alterations of nigromance, after the Late (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nigromantia, an alteration of the Classical (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin necromantīa, by association with niger (“black”) (compare black art).
Pronunciation
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Noun
nigromancy (plural nigromancies)
- (now historical or Caribbean) Necromancy; magic involving death. [from 14th c.]
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- "I hope thou wilt bring with thee Rebecca, even the scholar of the wise Miriam, whose cures the Gentiles slandered as if they had been wrought by nigromancy."
- 1999, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, translating Paracelsus, Astronomia Magna, in Essential Readings, North Atlantic Books 1999, p. 126:
- Whoever can deal with these mortal spirits and command them to do his business is proficient in the second species of nigromancy.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe: