Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Grammar; hence, learning in general; erudition.
- noun Magic; enchantment.
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Examples
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How can it be, I marvel at times, that men -- and women too -- will suffer themselves to be thus led astray, and yet follow on, oft knowing whither they go, after some one man or woman, that casteth over them a manner of gramary?
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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But when she ended, so great was the witchery of her fair face, and the gramary [magic] of her silver voice, that scarce man was in the hall but was ready to live and die with her.
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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_gramary_ (enchantment), and in French became a book of magic, under the alias of _Grimoire_.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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