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Definition of Necromantic
1. Adjective. Relating to or associated with necromancy. "Mysterious necromantic rites"
Partainyms: Necromancy, Necromancy
Derivative terms: Necromancy, Necromancy, Necromancy
2. Adjective. Given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead. "Necromantic powders and other weird objects"
Definition of Necromantic
1. n. Conjuration.
2. a. Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy.
Definition of Necromantic
1. Adjective. Of or referring to necromancy: the resurrection of or communication with the dead, especially through the use of black magic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Necromantic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Necromantic
1. Conjuration. See: necromantical. (14 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Necromantic
Literary usage of Necromantic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parsifal: A Festival Music-drama by Richard Wagner, John P. Jackson (1892)
"Magic apparatus and necromantic appliances. KLINGSOR, sealed on the ramparts at
one side, is looking into a metallic mirror.—He represents the spirit of ..."
2. History of the Venetian Republic: Her Rise, Her Greatness, and Her Civilization by William Carew Hazlitt (1860)
"... Language—Traces of the Feudal System—Venetian Serfs— Their necromantic
Practices—Agriculture—Character of the Early Venetians—Medieval Venice—Historical ..."
3. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"Raven, emblem of Denmark, and standard of the Danes. necromantic powers are
ascribed to it. Asser says, in his Lift of Alfred, If the Danes were ..."
4. Travelling Sketches on the Rhine, and in Belgium and Holland by Leitch Ritchie (1833)
"THE necromantic LAKE. IT is said that, in the country between Heidelberg and
Darmstadt, there lay, in former times, a vast lake. ..."
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