egromancy

English

Etymology

Coined by Richard Francis Burton from Middle English forms of necromancy, such as egremauncey and egremauncye.

Noun

egromancy (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of necromancy
   • 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

     Then she stood up; and, pronouncing some word to me unintelligible, she said: — By virtue of my egromancy become thou half stone and half man; whereupon I became what thou seest, unable to rise or sit, and neither dead nor alive.

   • 1922, E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros:

     Whereby I know that this twelfth King of the house of Gorice in Carcë shall be a most crafty warlock […] who by the might of his egromancy and the sword of Witchland shall exceed all earthly powers that be.

Anagrams

• macrogyne