English

Noun

egromancy ‎(uncountable)

1. alternative form of necromancy, used by Sir Richard Burton.
   • c.1450 Merlin

     A feire mayden...suster to Hardogebrant that moche knoweth of egremauncye...

     She...lerned so moche of egremauncye that the peple cleped hir afterward Morgain le fee.

   • 1475 Gregory's Chron.

     In the same yere there were take certayne traytourys, the whyche purposyd to slee oure lege lorde the kyng by crafte of egremauncey.

   • 1885 Sir Richard Burton The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights)

     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.