different between necromancy vs goety

English

Alternative forms

• necyomancy, egromancy

Etymology

Circa 1300, from Old French nigromancie, from Medieval Latin nigromantia, from Latin necromantia, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (nekromanteía), ?????? (nekrós, “dead”) + ??????? (manteía, “divination”). Medieval Latin spelling, incorporating niger (black), influenced by the notion of black art. Modern spelling adopted in mid-1500s.

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?k?-r?-m?n'-si, IPA^(key): /?n?k???mænsi/

Noun

necromancy (countable and uncountable, plural necromancies)

1. Divination involving the dead or death.
   • 1597 King James Daemonologie

     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.

   • 1652 Gaule The Magastromancer

     And in one word for all, Nagomancy, or Necromancy; by inspecting, consulting, and divining by, with, or from the dead.

   • 1867 E. Rogers, quoted in K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic

     the Devil did often tempt me to study necromancy and nigromancy and to make use of magic, and to make a league with him...

   • 1920 L. Spence Encyc. Occult

     There is no doubt..that necromancy is the touch-stone of occultism...

2. Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.
3. (Internet) Synonym of necroposting

Derived terms

• thread necromancy

Translations

English

Etymology

Latin goetia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (go?teía, “witchcraft”), from ???? (gó?s, “sorceror”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o??ti/

Noun

goety (uncountable)

1. (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.

Derived terms

• goetic

Anagrams

• togey