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

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Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekros, "dead") + -mancer. The first element is often re-interpreted in folk etymology as Latin niger ("black"), leading to variants like nigromancer and an association with "black" magic.

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  • Necromancer is used well in a sentence in Chapter XXII of "The Return of Dr Fu-Manchu" by Sax Rohmer.

    March 3, 2015