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    [Noun]  | "nec*ro*man*cy" | \ ˈne-krə-ˌman(t)-sē \


    1: conjuration of the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of events

    2: magic, sorcery


    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English nycromancie "sorcery, conjuration of spirits," borrowed from Late Latin necromantīa "divination from an exhumed corpse," borrowed from Late Greek nekromanteía "divination by conjuration of the dead," from Greek nekro- {see: |necro-|necr-} + -manteia {see: |-mancy|-mancy}; replacing earlier Middle English nigromance, nygromancye, borrowed from Anglo-French nigromance, nigromancie, borrowed from Medieval Latin nigromantia, alteration of necromantia by association with Latin nigr-, niger "black";

      * Note : The ancient Greek correspondents to later nekromanteía were nekyomanteía and nékyia (from nékȳs "corpse"), the former used particularly to describe Odysseus's journey to Hades in Book 11 of the Odyssey to consult the spirits of the dead.;

    [Noun]  | "necromancers" 


    1: a person skilled in using supernatural forces;


      * e.g., " ... in ancient times any kind of natural disaster was apt to be regarded as the work of some evil-minded necromancer "



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    [Noun]  | "necromancer" 


    1: a person skilled in using supernatural forces;


      * e.g., " ... in ancient times any kind of natural disaster was apt to be regarded as the work of some evil-minded necromancer "



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    [Noun]  | "necromancy" 


    1: the power to control natural forces through supernatural means;


      * e.g., " ... in the conjuring of the souls of the dead, necromancy seemed to offer human beings a means of exerting some control over an uncertain world "



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     [ "Necromancer" ]

    1: A magik(c) user who is devoted to the study of life and death and specialises in spells and incantations to with people both alive and dead.

     [ "The Necromancers" ]

    1: The Necromancers are a group of discord raiders that sit around on their chairs launching invasions on Nation-grade servers. They first gained their presence in N grade when United States of America (LoS member-state) was destroyed. The main existence of NA was to bring down N grade.

      * e.g.,  ... Larper 1: The Necromancers just destroyed our server. 

     [ "Necromancer" ]

    1: A person who practices necromancy, often called the Dark Art or Death magic. Necromantic abilities, through rituals and spells include divination from the deceased and creating servitors that can take the form of a corpse but, do not include raising the dead.

      * e.g.,  ... A necromancer creates a servitor and can control it to do certain actions. The necromancer then breaks his/her concentration for even a moment and the servitor is gone. 

     [ "necromancer" ]

    1: An Internet forum user who enjoys reviving old, dead threads, just to be an ass. Is eventually banned from forums after causing numerous threads to be closed or deleted. Closely related to n00b and lamer.

      * e.g.,  ... "I wish that necromancer would stop bumping three-year-old threads with one-word posts." 

     [ "Necromancer" ]

    1: A badass dude from Diablo 2 who leans back and summons shit from the dead.

      * e.g.,  ... The reason why necromancers are so godly in pvp is because they lean back. 

     [ "necromancer" ]

    1: One who attempts to divine knowledge (usualy of the future) via communion with the dead. Originally from the Greek manteia 'divination' and nekros 'corpse'. Often refers to any magic aspected to death in works of the fantasy genre.

      * e.g.,  ... Demonic conjuration and the delving into the secrets of unlife, the two sides of the skull faced coin. Necromancers, both Hood cursed and deadly. 

     [ "Necromancer" ]

    1: O00ooOoooOOOoo0oOOo I'm the fucking MC, suck my cock. I summon undead shit to do my bidding, I'm so edgy. I'm a Korean MF therefore I'm Sungjinwoo.

      * e.g.,  ... Guy 1: Oh shit, that manhwa has a necromancer protagonist? 

     [ "necromancer" ]

    1: usaly a witch or warloc that is specialize's in the dead and dark magic, sometimes the living and usely there magic is only having to do with life and death

      * e.g.,  ... the necromancer preforums a soul spell 

     [ "NECROMANCER" ]

    1: Study of black magic and bringing back the dead -the study and rituals for life and death ;romancing the dead back to life and gaining power - getting off on or in a dead warm or cold corpse

      * e.g.,  ... The same man that actually thinks up the necromancer games - is a judge in FAMILY court,it’s to bad . 

     [ "Necromancer" ]

    1: Brian Lumley defined necromancers in his Necroscope books as people who could learn the secrets of the dead by mutilating their corpses causing their still sentient spirits excruciating agony (they can't die again...). In his books this was a skill resurrected by the soviets

      * e.g.,  ... 'hello mister necromancer I want to know what my sister got in my Granny's will; here's her body and 500 smackeroos I'll be in the hall' 'Not a problem comrade' Dennis Nilsen Jeffery Dahmer voodoo not taking something to the grave 

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