Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Invocation of evil spirits; black magic; sorcery, in a bad sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft.
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- noun archaic
witchcraft , demonicmagic ,necromancy
Etymologies
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Latin goetia, from Greek γοητεια ‘witchcraft’, from γοης ‘sorceror’.
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qroqqa commented on the word goety
black magic, witchcraft, necromancy, sorcery
Goety worketh vpon the dead by inuocation, so called of the noyse that the practisers hereof make about graues.
—John Healey, 1610, translation of and commentary on Augustine of Hippo's City of God
< Greek goēteí�? < goēt- "sorcerer" < go- "cry, wail"
August 4, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word goety
""You should certainly include a chapter on goety," said Sir Stephen."
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, p 83
November 12, 2015