grimoire
a manual of magic or witchcraft used by witches and sorcerers.
Origin of grimoire
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How to use grimoire in a sentence
The Garden of Cyrus, with its arcane explorations of botany and geometry, may as well be an alchemical treatise or a grimoire.
Halloween Read: Thomas Browne’s Eerie Premonition of His Burial | Stefan Beck | October 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTFrom the same source we have the French corruption grimoire, "a booke of conjuring" (Cotgrave).
The Romance of Words (4th ed.) | Ernest WeekleyAn alternative method provided by the grimoire is to take an unspotted egg, and expose it to the meridian rays of the sun.
Human Animals | Frank HamelThe pretended sorcerers had their "grimoire" and the judges had their sorcerer's code.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)The first object that caught his attention, was a large grimoire, or book of spells, which lay open on the philosopher's desk.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions | Charles Mackay
British Dictionary definitions for grimoire
/ (ɡriːmˈwɑː) /
a textbook of sorcery and magic
Origin of grimoire
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