necromancy
11necromancy — [[t]ne̱krəmænsi[/t]] N UNCOUNT Necromancy is magic that some people believe brings a dead person back to this world so that you can talk to them. [FORMAL] …
12necromancy — noun Juma had been a practitioner of necromancy in some small village in Central America Syn: sorcery, (black) magic, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry, the occult, occultism, voodoo, hoodoo; divination; spiritualism …
13necromancy — [13] Greek nekrós meant ‘corpse’ (it has given English necrophilia [19], necropolis ‘cemetery’ [19], and necrosis ‘death of tissue’ [17] as well as necromancy, and goes back to a base *nek ‘kill’ which also produced Latin nex ‘killing’, source of …
14Necromancy (film) — For the form of magic, see Necromancy. Necromancy Directed by Bert I. Gordon Produced by Sidney L. Caplan …
15necromancy — noun Etymology: alteration of Middle English nigromancie, from Anglo French, from Medieval Latin nigromantia, by folk etymology from Late Latin necromantia, from Late Greek nekromanteia, from Greek nekr + manteia mancy Date: 1522 1. conjuration… …
16necromancy — Synonyms and related words: alchemy, bewitchery, bewitchment, charm, divination, enchantment, fetishism, glamour, gramarye, hoodoo, juju, jujuism, magic, mediumism, natural magic, obeah, rune, seance, shamanism, sitting, sorcery, sortilege, spell …
17necromancy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sorcery, enchantment, magic. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. sorcery, communing with the dead, black magic, conjuring, mysticism, Satan worshipping, demonology …
18necRomancy — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. wizardry, thaumaturgy, sorcery; see magic 1 , witchcraft …
19necromancy — nec|ro|man|cy [ˈnekrəmænsi] n [U] [Date: 1200 1300; : Late Latin; Origin: necromantia, from Greek, from nekros dead body + manteia telling the future ] 1.) magic, especially evil magic 2.) literary the practice of claiming to talk with the dead… …
20necromancy — nec|ro|man|cy [ nekrə,mænsi ] noun uncount MAINLY LITERARY the practice of communicating with dead people in order to learn about the future ╾ nec|ro|man|cer noun count …
