Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or performed by necromancy.
- Witching; enchanting; magical.
- Conjuring.
- noun A magical or conjuring trick; a magical act; conjuring.
- noun A conjurer; a magician.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy.
- noun rare Conjuration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or referring to
necromancy : theresurrection of orcommunication with the dead, especially through the use ofblack magic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or associated with necromancy
- adjective given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead
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Examples
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He wields Batman's skull as some kind of necromantic artifact:
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An old warlock at the end of his natural life tries one last time to seduce his niece/daughter incest powers much of the magic in this novel, so she can help him rise from the grave to begin a kind of necromantic undeath.
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An old warlock at the end of his natural life tries one last time to seduce his niece/daughter incest powers much of the magic in this novel, so she can help him rise from the grave to begin a kind of necromantic undeath.
NIGHT OF THE WARLOCK by Raymond Giles (Paperback Library 1968) 2005
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"Want I should go dig the guy up and let you do some kind of necromantic thing on him?"
She Is The Darkness Cook, Glen 1997
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For had I not exercised a kind of necromantic art, and roused without awaking the slumbering dead?
The Portent & Other Stories George MacDonald 1864
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Haust applied the term "necromantic" to Scandinavian metal in the song Nekromantik Norway.
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Haust applied the term "necromantic" to Scandinavian metal in the song Nekromantik Norway.
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They were now in sight of the lodge of Iamo, the magician of the undying head -- of that great magician whose life had been the forfeit of the kind of necromantic leprosy caused by the careless steps of the fatal curse of uncleanliness in his sister.
The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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"necromantic" light effects, "preternatural sounds," voluptuous scents, and clockwork machinery had so intoxicated young Beckford that he'd immediately begun writing his famous Oriental romance,
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Roscoe, New York, 1851, ch. xiii) Benvenuto Cellini shows how vague the meaning of necromancy had become when he relates that he assisted at "necromantic" evocations in which multitudes of "devils" appeared and answered his questions.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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