Meaning

Divination involving the dead or death..

Definitions by Sense

1. Divination involving the dead or death.
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.

Example Sentences

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...

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.

And in one word for all, Nagomancy, or Necromancy; by inspecting, consulting, and divining by, with, or from the dead.

There is no doubt..that necromancy is the touch-stone of occultism...

Word Forms

• necromancies
• necyomancy
• egromancy

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Use necromancy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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