different between witchcraft vs goety

English

Etymology

From Middle English wicchecraft, wicchecreft, from Old English wi??ecræft, equivalent to witch +? -craft.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?t??k?æft/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?t??k???ft/

Noun

witchcraft (usually uncountable, plural witchcrafts)

1. The practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use of supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
2. Something, such as an advanced technology, that seems almost magical.

   Synonym: wizardry

   • 1987, Air Force Magazine (volume 70, page 88)

     There can be no denying that the more than 100 exhibiting companies and divisions also gave full play to examples of their latest technological witchcraft, as befits the foremost US aerospace event.

Translations

See also

• spellcraft
• spellcasting
• hexcraft
• wizardcraft
• wizardry
• warlockry
• sorcery
• gypsycraft

Middle English

Noun

witchcraft

1. Alternative form of wicchecraft

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