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Gramarye

Gram′a-rye

,
Noun.
[OE.
gramer
,
grameri
,
gramori
, grammar, magic, OF.
gramaire
, F.
grammaire.
See
Grammar.
]
Necromancy; magic.
Sir W. Scott.

Definition 2024


gramarye

gramarye

English

Noun

gramarye (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Grammar; learning.
  2. (archaic) Mystical learning; the occult, magic, sorcery.
    • 1885, But the daughter of my uncle (this gazelle) had learned gramarye and egromancy and clerkly craft from her childhood; so she bewitched that son of mine to a calf, and my handmaid (his mother) to a heifer, and made them over to the herdsman's care. — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, vol. 1

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