egromancy
obs. var. necromancy. Also egromantic adj.
[Cf. note s.v. necromancy. Sir R. Burton believed that he had found the words in some Eng. writer of 17th c.]
| c 1450 Merlin (1899) 375, 508 Egramauncye. a 1469 Gregory's Chron. (Camden Soc. 1876) 183 Egremauncey. |
| arch. 1885 R. Burton Arab. Nights I. 76 By virtue of my egromancy become thou half stone and half man. Ibid. I. 133 An hundred and seventy chapters of egromantic formulas. |