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Egromancy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of necromancy. alt-of, alternative, uncountable

    "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."

Etymology

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

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