Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By necromancy or the black art; by conjuring.
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Examples
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These abominations should never have been born -- born, synthesized, stitched together, alchemically confected, necromantically conjured, however they'd come into the world.
Interview: James Morrow on 'Shambling Towards Hiroshima' 2009
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Callers at Heartholm grew disapprovingly accustomed to the sight of the grotesque face and figure peering through the shrubberies; they shrugged their shoulders impatiently, coming upon the recumbent child dreamily gazing at his own reflection in the lily-pond, looking necromantically out from the molten purple of a wind-blown beech, or standing at gaze in a clump of iris.
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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For a more lasting haunting, try David Hoffos's brilliant and, I'm convinced, necromantically enhanced labyrinth of spookified installations, Scenes from the House Dream, currently taking up the whole floor plan at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA).
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed R.M. Vaughan 2010
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