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necromancer|ˈnɛkrəʊmænsə(r)|
Forms: α. 4–6 nygro-, (5 nygra-); 4–7 (9) nigro-, (5–6 nigra-); 6–8 negro-. β. 6– necro-, (6 nicro-). Also 4–5 -mauncer(e, 5 -mancere, -ciere, 5–7 -mancier; 4–6 -manser, 4 -sere, 5 -sier, -syer, Sc. -sour, 6 -sir.
[a. OF. nigromansere: see necromancy and -er1.]
1. One who practises necromancy; one who claims to carry on communication with the dead; more generally, a wizard, magician, wonder-worker, conjurer.
Quot. 1970 involves a pun on ‘Negro’.
α13..Cursor M. 22112 (Gött.), Noris him sal enchanturs, Of nigromancers and of iugelurs. 1375Barbour Bruce iv. 242 The erll Ferrandis moder was Ane nygramansour. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 19 Machometus, þe fals prophete and nigromancier, deceyvede the Agarenys in thys maner. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xi. 277 He was the subtillest nygramancer that ever was in the worlde. a1540Barnes Wks. (1573) 331/2 Gregory the seuenth, which was..a great nygromancer, and very familyar with the deuill. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 444 It may bee, thought I, that in this Island..some odd Nigromancer did inhabit, who would shewe me Fayries. 1658tr. Bergerac's Satyr. Char. xii. 46, I teach the Negromancers to destroy their Enemies. 1710Pict. of Malice 11 The Print is..a Talisman (bequeath'd..by a..Negromancer). 1829W. Irving Granada (1850) 342 The Moorish nigromancer stood beside him. 1922E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xxxi. 388 Yet was it apparent to one so deeply learned in nigromancy and secrets astronomical that this thing was fatal. 1970I. Reed in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 329 He who meddles w/ nigro-mancers courts his demise.
βa1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 211 Her frendes on the other side, said..her iorney [was] empeched by Sorcerers and Necromanciers. 1579Fulke Refut. Rastel 728 Marcus an heretique and Necromanser, made that by enchantment, there should appeare very bloud in the chalice. 1634Milton Comus 649 You may Boldly assault the necromancers hall. 1681H. More in Glanvill's Sadducismus i. Postscr. (1726) 19 Necromancers; that is, those that..do raise the Ghosts of the deceased to consult with. 1709Swift Vind. Bickerstaff Wks. 1751 IV. 223 The General who was forced to kill his Enemies twice over, whom a Necromancer had raised to life. 1796Bp. Watson Apol. Bible vi. 55 There were false prophets, witches, necromancers..among the Jews. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. iii, The young necromancer declared that the same wonder would appear in all the rooms in turn. a1873Lytton Pausanias iii. i, Does it need the Necromancer to convince us that the soul does not perish when the breath leaves the lips?
appos.1854Card. Wiseman Fabiola ii. vii, She promised to prevent the nightly excursions of her necromancer slave.
2. A silver or pewter dish with closely fitting lid and wide rim (see quots.).
1747H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 51 Take a large Pewter or Silver Dish, made like a deep Soop Dish, with an Edge about an Inch deep on the inside, on which the Lid fixes (with a Handle at top) so fast that you may lift it up full, by that Handle without falling; this Dish is called a Necromancer. 1784S. Maciver Cookery & Pastry (ed. 4) iii. 56 A necromancer is a flat white-iron pan with two handles, and a lid that checks in very close. Ibid. 57 Send it to the table in the necromancer. 1967Canad. Antiques Collector Apr. 16/2 An interesting if rather odd relative of the chafing dish. It was called a ‘necromancer’ and was made of silver or pewter and fashioned like a deep soup dish with a well-fitting-lid and with a wide rim. When filled with thinly sliced meat, the container was hung by the rim between two chairs. Heat was applied by burning fifteen spills of brown paper. |