necromancy

Etymology
Circa 1300, from, from , from , from , from , +. Medieval Latin spelling, incorporating, influenced by the notion of black art. Modern spelling adopted in mid-1500s. .

Noun

 * 1) Divination involving the dead or death.
 * 2) * 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...
 * 1) Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.
 * the Devil did often tempt me to study necromancy and nigromancy and to make use of magic, and to make a league with him...
 * 1) Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.
 * 1) Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.

Translations

 * Arabic: نِكْرُومَانْسِيَّة
 * Aramaic:
 * Jewish Babylonian: נְגִידָא
 * Basque: nekromantzia
 * Bulgarian: некромантия
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: nekromansya
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 死灵术
 * Czech: nekromancie
 * Danish: nekromanti
 * Dutch: dodenbezwering
 * Faroese: andamaning
 * Finnish: nekromantia
 * French:
 * German:, , Totenorakel
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: nekromanta
 * Icelandic: andasæring
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: marbhdhraíocht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ネクロマンシー
 * Korean: 강령술(降靈術)
 * Latin: nigromantia, necromantia
 * Latvian: nekromantika
 * Macedonian: некрома́нтија
 * Middle English: nigromancy
 * Old English: sċīnlāc
 * Old French: nygromancie
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: necromanția
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: некромантија
 * Latin: nekromancija
 * Slovak: nekromancia
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: nekromansya
 * Turkish: nekromansi
 * Ukrainian: некрома́нтія