Word: 'necromancy' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'necromancy' • Extended Annotations
necro- + -mancy
necro "death, corpse, dead tissue"
Latinized form of Greek nekros "dead body, corpse, dead person"
from PIE root nek- "death"
mancy "divination by means of"
from Greek manteía "the power to prophesy or divine; oracle, divination"
A pure, unadulterated word
“For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.”
"Equal Rites"
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |