From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Necromancy \Nec"ro*man'cy\, noun [OE. nigromaunce, nigromancie, OF. nigromance, F. n['e]cromance, n['e]cromancie, from L. necromantia, Gr. ?; nekro's a dead body (akin to L. necare to kill, Skr. na[,c] to perish, vanish) + ? divination, fr. ? diviner, seer, akin to E. mania. See {Mania}, and cf. {Internecine}, {Noxious}. The old spelling is due to confusion with L. niger black. Hence the name black art.] The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantment. See {Black art}.
This palace standeth in the air, By necromancy plac['e]d there. --Drayton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world [syn: {sorcery}, {black magic}, {black art}]
2: conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "necromancy": alchemy, bewitchery, bewitchment, charm, divination, enchantment, fetishism, glamour, gramarye, hoodoo, juju, jujuism, magic, mediumism, natural magic, obeah, rune, seance, shamanism, sitting, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, spirit, spiritism, spiritualism, sympathetic magic, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, vampirism, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, white magic, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, wizardry
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