Definitions

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  • Of or pertaining to goety; dark and evil in magic.

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  • adjective Pertaining to black magic or necromancy.

Etymologies

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From goety.

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Examples

  • And teach you astrology and dowsing, but only those if you perform the goetic rituals correctly.

    Regretsy – Regretsy Math 2010

  • I could troll through the rest of Il's appearances and pull out plenty more like that -- in short, I think I've found the smoking goetic gun for Dee's dramaturgies.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

  • Superhuman though their power of goetic movement was, it couldn't check them before they hit the atmosphere.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • That meant paranatural phenomena to observe and goetic work to do, even for a female paleface if she had the skill.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • Quick and easy for a witch of her skill, they did not demand any physical or goetic examination of the spacecraft.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • Whether the energy comes from fuel or a waterfall or goetic quantum-wave transference across a potential difference, or whatever, it's conserved, same as mass is conserved in a transformation.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • But it should be obvious to any layman that removing every telltale object, smudge, and fluff of dust from the place, let alone every goetic trace, would take days.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • Its defenses were purely goetic, and technology can outwit technology.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • I did catch a slight ozonelike tang of goetic forces at work, but that was to be expected hereabouts, especially tonight.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • They can't stop her in her course, but the original mission, a lunar landing, gives them the goetic leverage to redirect it that much.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

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  • related to witchcraft or black magic

    February 7, 2007

  • Also a noun:necromancer;a magician-Webster's New International Dictionary (1913)

    Used by Nabokov as an adjective on page 183 of Pale Fire

    November 10, 2007

  • There's much to be loved in realms noetic
    Where chanting muses wax poetic,
    Alas, much to dread
    If the mind is instead
    Seduced by songs of sirens goetic.

    January 13, 2015