Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
necromancy .
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- noun
Necromancy ;magic involvingdeath .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Edinburgh in quarto volumes; showing the "nigromancy" of the
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving 1821
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Part III of the Faust-book relates his 'feats of nigromancy at the courts of Potentates' and elsewhere, and his 'terrible end and departure.'
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It was made by nigromancy, of the skin of the beast _Dindialos_, which is hunted in the shadowless land by the savage people whose name is _Cenocefali_; and the fringes of the mantle were not of the sable, but of a "beast of price" that dwells in the water of Paradise: --
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Understood as nigromancy (niger, black), which is the Italian,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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a thing that men may learn by practice, without dealing in nigromancy and the black magic.
A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878
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