egremauncye
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Variation of nigromancye.
Noun
egremauncye
- Sorcery or divination involving death or the dead; necromancy.
- c. 1450–1460, Merlin or The Early History of King Arthur: A Prose Romance (about 1450–1460 A.D.). Edited from the Unique MS. in the University Library, Cambridge, by Henry B. Wheatley [...], vol. I, London, 1899, p. 176 (google-US)
- [...] a feire mayden [...] suster to Hardogebrant that moche knoweth of egremauncye, [...]
- c. 1450–1460, Merlin or The Early History of King Arthur: A Prose Romance (about 1450–1460 A.D.). Edited from the Unique MS. in the University Library, Cambridge, by Henry B. Wheatley [...], vol. II, London, 1899, p. 508 (google-US):
- [...] she [...] lerned so moche of egremauncye, that the peple cleped hir afterward Morgain le fee, [...]
- 1475, Gregory's Chronicle, in: The Historical Collections of Citizen of London in the Fifteenth Century, containing: I. John Page's Poem on the Siege of Rouen. II. Lydgate's Verses on the Kings of England. III. William Gregory's Chronicle of London. Edited by James Gairdner, 1876, p. 183 (google, google):
- And in the same yere there were take certayne traytourys, the whyche purposyd to slee oure lege lorde the kyng by crafte of egremauncey,a [...]
- a Necromancy
- And in the same yere there were take certayne traytourys, the whyche purposyd to slee oure lege lorde the kyng by crafte of egremauncey,a [...]
- c. 1450–1460, Merlin or The Early History of King Arthur: A Prose Romance (about 1450–1460 A.D.). Edited from the Unique MS. in the University Library, Cambridge, by Henry B. Wheatley [...], vol. I, London, 1899, p. 176 (google-US)
References
- “egremauncīe, (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 May 2018.
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