Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who practises necromancy; a conjurer; a sorcerer; a wizard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
practices necromancy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who practices magic or sorcery
- noun one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word necromancer.
Examples
-
| Reply only 5 classes so alot of the old ones are out, i hope necromancer is still in there, was my favorite
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Some things we know and don’t know about DIII 2008
-
The necromancer is likely converted to the witchdoctor, considering the similarity of their builds (poison nova = locusts, bone wall = wall of zombies).
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Some things we know and don’t know about DIII 2008
-
Rumour has it a Godless 'necromancer' - someone able to bring the dead back to life - is responsible for the safety of its inhabitants.
Twitch 2010
-
Rumour has it a Godless 'necromancer' - someone able to bring the dead back to life - is responsible for the safety of its inhabitants.
Twitch 2010
-
[14: 11] cristalia: The necromancer is unveiling his plans, so what're they going to do?
illustrative of the process.... matociquala 2009
-
According to one tradition, the necromancer was the wife of Zephaniah and the mother of Abner (Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer [ed. Higger], chap. 32).
-
He recalled the necromancer's words, spoken just before the dog tumbled Alfred over the side.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
-
And the necromancer was a great deal like Haplo's dog.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
-
Cudjoe, reputed to be a powerful Obeah man; that is, a necromancer, or what the North American Indians would call a medicine-man.
The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
-
Messer Ansaldo, marvelling not a little, rose, and having called the necromancer: -- "I am minded," quoth he, "that thou see what goodly gain I have gotten by thine art."
The Decameron, Volume II Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
WanderlustDreamer commented on the word necromancer
Necromancer is used well in a sentence in Chapter XXII of "The Return of Dr Fu-Manchu" by Sax Rohmer.
March 3, 2015