corrupt ff. NECROMANCY, -MANTIC.
[Cf. negromancy and Walloon égrimancien = Fr. nécromancien (Littré). Sir R. Burton believes that he found the words in some Eng. writer of 17th c., and many scholars inform us that they have certainly met with them in earlier literature, but we have failed to obtain references.]
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.
