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† necromantical, a. Obs.
Also 6 nigro-, 7 negro-.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Necromantic.
1590Forman Diary (Halliw.) 21 At Al-hallontyd I entred the cirkell for nigromanticall spells. 1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. xii. 309 These Necromanticall Images, fathered vpon Albertus. 1651Raleigh's Ghost 180 The like Negromantical evocation to be made by Scipio, is read in Silvius. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts (1683) 177 That he principally affected Poetry..seems plain from his necromantical Prophecies.
Hence necromantically adv.
a1646J. Gregory Posthuma, Assyr. Monarch. (1650) 199 After som diabolical Exorcisms, Necromantically performed, the head shall proue vocal. 1963Times 1 May 13/6 Voodoo..is seen as a religion of fear in which people become like animals, being possessed by demons and necromantically meddling with the spirits of the dead. 1965New Statesman 12 Nov. 749/1 The most marvellous, necromantically speaking, is probably the title piece, where a boy learns the hazards of magic. |