goety

发音

/ˈɡoʊɪti/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    witchcraft, demonic magic, necromancy.

    废旧 不可数

    1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados 'Then it is witchcraft?' I said, pointing to the amulet. 'I know not, my lord,' he answered; 'but if it be witchcraft it is of the honourable sort and not the goety of Sahitan. […] '

    The confused and high-piled litter of manuscripts, volumes, notebooks on his writing-table had seemingly lain untouched by anything but his own hand; and his bookshelves, with their bizarre and terrifical array of authorities on diabolism, necromancy, goety, on all the ridiculed or outlawed sciences, were undisturbed and intact.

词源

From Latin goetia, from Ancient Greek γοητεία (goēteía, “witchcraft”), from γόης (góēs, “sorceror”).

来源:wiktionary