Necromantic

nec·ro·man·cy (n

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1. The practice of supposedly communicating with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future.

2. Black magic; sorcery.

3. Magic qualities.

[Alteration of Middle English nigromancie, from Old French nigremancie, from Medieval Latin nigromantia, alteration (influenced by Latin niger, black) of Late Latin necromantia, from Greek nekromanteia : nekros, corpse; see nek-¹ in Indo-European roots + manteia, divination; see -mancy.]

necro·mancer n.

necro·mantic (-m

k) adj.

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Adj.	1.	necromantic - relating to or associated with necromancy; "mysterious necromantic rites" necromantical
	2.	necromantic - given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead; "a necromantic sorcerer"; "necromantic delusions"; "necromantic powders and other weird objects" supernatural - not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings"

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Wopsle in a high-crowned hat, with a necromantic work in one volume under his arm.

Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context

Your poor cousin Clifford is another dead and long-buried person, on whom the governor and council have wrought a necromantic miracle.

House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

But the whole nation is, indeed, of so surprising a necromantic ability, that not even their infants, nor their commonest cats and dogs have any difficulty in seeing objects that do not exist at all, or that for twenty millions of years before the birth of the nation itself had been blotted out from the face of creation.

The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

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