necromancer

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It was his reputation as a necromancer, and the stories current of illicit rites performed in the garden-rooms at St. John's, that contributed largely to his being dismissed from that College.

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  1. One who practises necromancy; a conjurer; a sorcerer; a wizard. Kyng Henry of Castell had there with hym a nygromancer of Tollet. Berners, tr. of Froissart's Chron., I. cccxxxii. There shall not be found among you any one … that useth divination, … or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. Deut xviii. 11.

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  • One in a million children is a potential necromancer, and he—or very rarely, she—may never tap the power, never even know that there is any power to tap. —  Kat Richardson - Greywalker 1 - Greywalker (v2.0)
  • When her mentor Ayaan is taken by minions of a powerful necromancer, the Tsarevich, Sarah comes up with an audacious plan to rescue her, but this involves travelling to America, where the Tsarevich has plans of his own, including a search for the magical Source. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#3
  • The alfaqui was an African necromancer, and by his infernal arts cast a spell upon me—to guard his treasures. —  Washington Irving
  • Was he now attacked by a necromancer, a servant of imported evil gods? —  The Streetbird - van de Wetering, Janwillem - Grijpstra-de Gier 09
  • But he was like some thing out of a funny paper or a fairy tale He wore a tight skullcap that might have belonged to a necromancer, and a flowing robe of dark-blue velvet that might have been a bathrobe or a lounging robe, yet did not quite look like either of these. —  086 - The Evil Gnome
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  1. Formerly negromancer, nygromancer; from Old French ni gromanceur, from nigromance, necromancy: see necromancy.
 

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