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1. The practice of attempting to communicate with the spirits of the dead in order to predict or influence the future: As entertainment for the evening gathering, Ms. Hester-Jones hired a person to demonstrate necromancy so she could supposedly raise spirits and communicate with them.
2. Witchcraft or sorcery in general: During some periods of history, to be accused of necromancy resulted in some accused practitioners being executed.
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2. Witchcraft or sorcery in general: During some periods of history, to be accused of necromancy resulted in some accused practitioners being executed.
Divination by communication with the dead by raising them back to “life” (not as ghosts). Early Greeks were supposed to descend into Hades to consult the dead rather than summoning the dead into the mortal sphere again. More recently, it is claimed that ghosts or spirits are summoned to speak to the living.
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-mancy, -mancer, -mantic, -mantical
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necro-, necr-, necron-, -necrosis, nekro- +
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“necromancy”
Divination or fortune telling which involves the dead or death; any sorcery or witchcraft; particularly sorcery involving raising or reactivating the dead. (2)
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