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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:necromancyWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• necyomancy, egromancy

Etymology

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Circa 1300, from Middle English nigromancye, from Old French nigromancie, from Medieval Latin nigromantia, from Latin necromantia, from Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía), νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”). Medieval Latin spelling, incorporating niger (“black”), influenced by the notion of black art. Modern spelling adopted in mid-1500s. By surface analysis, necro- +‎ -mancy.

Pronunciation

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• enPR: nĕkʹ-rə-măn'-si, IPA(key): /ˈnɛkɹəˌmænsi/

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Noun

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necromancy (countable and uncountable, plural necromancies)

1. Divination involving the dead or death.
   • 1597, King James Daemonologie, (Please provide the book title or journal name):And for to make this treatise the more pleasaunt and facill, I have put it in forme of a Dialogue, which I have diuided into three bookes: The first speaking of Magie in general, and Necromancie in special.
   • 1652, Gaule The Magastromancer, (Please provide the book title or journal name):And in one word for all, Nagomancy, or Necromancy; by inspecting, consulting, and divining by, with, or from the dead.
   • 1867 E. Rogers, quoted in K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic the Devil did often tempt me to study necromancy and nigromancy and to make use of magic, and to make a league with him...
   • 1920, L. Spence, Encyc. Occult:There is no doubt..that necromancy is the touch-stone of occultism...
2. Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.
3. (Internet) Synonym of necroposting.

Derived terms

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• thread necromancy

Related terms

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• necromancer
• necromantic

Translations

[edit] divination involving the dead

Arabic: نِكْرُومَانْسِيَّة (nikrūmānsiyya) Aramaic: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: נְגִידָא m Basque: nekromantzia Bulgarian: некромантия (nekromantija) Catalan: nigromància (ca) f Cebuano: nekromansya Chinese: Mandarin: 招魂術 / 招魂术 (zh) (zhāohúnshù), 死靈術 / 死灵术 Cornish: nygromons m Czech: nekromancie Danish: nekromanti c Dutch: dodenbezwering f Esperanto: nekromancio Faroese: andamaning f Finnish: nekromantia French: nécromancie (fr) f Old French: nygromancie German: Totenbeschwörung (de) f, Nekromantie (de) f, Totenorakel n Greek: νεκρομαντεία (el) f (nekromanteía) Hebrew: אוֹב (he) m (ov) (biblical) Hungarian: nekromanta Icelandic: andasæring f Ido: nekromancio (io) Indonesian: nekromansi (id) Irish: marbhdhraíocht f Italian: negromanzia (it) f Japanese: ネクロマンシー (nekuromanshī) Korean: 강령술(降靈術) (gangnyeongsul) Latin: nigromantia, necromantia Latvian: nekromantika Macedonian: некрома́нтија f (nekromántija) Middle English: nigromancy Old English: sċīnlāc m Polish: nekromancja (pl) Portuguese: necromancia (pt), nigromancia (pt) Romanian: necromanția f Russian: некрома́нтия (ru) f (nekromántija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: некромантија f Latin: nekromancija f Slovak: nekromancia f Spanish: nigromancia (es) f, necromancia (es) f, necromancía (es) f (rare), nigromancía (es) f (rare) Swedish: nekromanti (sv) Tagalog: nekromansya Turkish: nekromansi Ukrainian: некрома́нтія f (nekromántija)

See also

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• raising hell
• raising the dead

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