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Necromancer

Necromancer \Nec"ro*man`cer\, n. One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
necromancer

c.1300, from Old French nigromansere, from nigromancie (see necromancy).

Wiktionary
necromancer

n. A person who practices necromancy.

WordNet
necromancer
  1. n. one who practices magic or sorcery [syn: sorcerer, magician, wizard]

  2. one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead

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Necromancer (2005 film)

Necromancer (, translit. Jom kha mung wej) is a 2005 Thai drama film directed by Piyapan Choopetch and starring Chatchai Plengpanich and Akara Amarttayakul. It is very loosely based on the 1996 killing of some drug dealers by police, but with an added dimension of witchcraft battles between police and ex-police.

Necromancer (disambiguation)

A necromancer is a person who practices necromancy, a discipline of black magic used to communicate with the dead to foretell the future. It can also refer to:

Necromancer (novel)

Necromancer is a science fiction novel written by Gordon R. Dickson in 1962. It was alternatively titled No Room for Man between 1963 and 1974 before reverting to its original title. It is the prequel to his earlier novel Dorsai.

Necromancer (1988 film)

Necromancer is a 1988 American horror film directed by Dusty Nelson and starring Elizabeth Kaitan. The story follows a young woman who is raped by a group of men, and contacts a necromancer to exact her revenge.

Necromancer (Dungeons & Dragons)

The Necromancer is a playable character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. The necromancer is most often a specialist wizard, using the base rules for mages or wizards and adding death-magic. Clerics or other classes may also specialize in death magic, but they are not wizard necromancers in the technical sense.

Necromancer (video game)

Necromancer is a 1982 computer game for the Atari 8-bit series created by Bill Williams and distributed by Synapse Software. A port to the Commodore 64 followed in 1983, and it was re-released by Atari in cartridge form for the Atari XEGS in 1987.

The player controls the wizard Illuminar who attempts to grow an army of trees to attack Tetragorn the Necromancer and his evil minions who are attempting to take over a graveyard. The game is an arcade action title, but is unusual in that there are three distinct segments of gameplay, each of which affects the one following it.

Usage examples of "necromancer".

The alfaqui was an African necromancer, and by his infernal arts cast a spell upon me--to guard his treasures.

Son of a whore, pot of excrement, liar, thief, hypocrite trimmer and counterfeiter, adulterer, glutton, coward, voluptuary, sodomite, usurer, simoniac, necromancer, sower of discord, cheat!

This Leso Varen was a necromancer, a master of the magic of death, and he had undertaken some great spell recently.

After the death of Neg the Malefic, the necromancer whom Conan had slain, the young Cimmerian and Elashi had agreed to travel together until their paths parted.

This man having been reinstalled in his offices, for by trade he is a priest and a necromancer, stated to the king in my presence that the lady Myra yonder was not a princess of the royal blood of Egypt as Pharaoh Amasis had declared, but the low-born wife of an Egyptian named Ramose, a son of Pharaoh Apries and the lady Chloe, believing which, my father publicly put away the lady Myra and from that day till his death never looked upon her face again.

The three sepulchral-looking beings were the commanders of that immense troop of seers, haruspicators, necromancers, conjurers, and sortilegers that Prankipin had gathered about himself in the final two decades of his reign.

They were trying to find a diplomatic solution to stop the Ancelstierrans from sending Southerling refugees across the Wall, to their certain deaths and, after that, to serve at the command of the necromancer Hedge.

A necromancer by the name of Thengor reported that his own studies indicated no theurgical or demonological involvement and that the souls of the victims were nowhere in the World, while some of the others expressed doubts about the accuracy of any necromantic reports.

A necromancer by the name of Thengor reported that his own studies indicated no theurgical or demonological involvement, and that the souls of the victims were nowhere in the World, while some of the others expressed doubts about the accuracy of any necromantic reports.

In some stories he was also known as a powerful necromancer and magician, but this Apollonius strictly denied.

The carilloneur, the necromancer, and North shared a meal together, in the shade of a buttress.

Telling whether a black-robed figure was a demonologist or a warlock or a necromancer or something else entirely was not easy.

But the protection which the Paduan Doctor received from some friends of interest and consequence, enabled him to set these imputations at defiance, and to assume, even in the city of Edinburgh, famed as it was for abhorrence of witches and necromancers, the dangerous character of an expounder of futurity.

The necromancer, however, knew nothing of the customs and traditions of the Roofman who dwelt directly above him all his life--North himself was as strange a creature as the Eastern Roofmen were to North--and so the conversation withered, and they passed the rest of the night in silence.

The necromancer, teeth bared and eyes widened, stared down the barrel of the firearm at the Roofman, crazed with greed.