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Definitions: Necromantic |
NecromanticAdjective1. Relating to or associated with necromancy; "mysterious necromantic rites". 2. Given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead; "a necromantic sorcerer"; "necromantic delusions"; "necromantic powders and other weird objects". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "necromantic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
Synonym: NecromanticSynonym: necromantical (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Necromantic |
| English words defined with "necromantic": necromantical. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "necromantic": SEAL. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authenticity and authority. Sometimes it is stamped upon wax, and attached to the paper, sometimes into the paper itself. Sealing, in this sense, is a survival of an ancient custom of inscribing important papers with cabalistic words or signs to give them a magical efficacy independent of the authority that they represent. In the British museum are preserved many ancient papers, mostly of a sacerdotal character, validated by necromantic pentagrams and other devices, frequently initial letters of words to conjure with; and in many instances these are attached in the same way that seals are appended now. As nearly every reasonless and apparently meaningless custom, rite or observance of modern times had origin in some remote utility, it is pleasing to note an example of ancient nonsense evolving in the process of ages into something really useful. Our word "sincere" is derived from sine cero, without wax, but the learned are not in agreement as to whether this refers to the absence of the cabalistic signs, or to that of the wax with which letters were formerly closed from public scrutiny. Either view of the matter will serve one in immediate need of an hypothesis. The initials L.S., commonly appended to signatures of legal documents, mean locum sigillis, the place of the seal, although the seal is no longer used -- an admirable example of conservatism distinguishing Man from the beasts that perish. The words locum sigillis are humbly suggested as a suitable motto for the Pribyloff Islands whenever they shall take their place as a sovereign State of the American Union. |
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| "Necromantic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Necromantic" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
necromantic | 21 |
necromantic westgate | 4 |
necromantic ritual | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "necromantic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që merret me narkomani. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който се занимава с магия. (various references) | |
Czech | magický (magical, occult). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecromanticnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | necromancia. (various references) | |
Russian | колдовской (magic, magical, voodoo, witching, witchy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nekromantski. (various references) | |
Swedish | nekromantik. (various references) | |
Turkish | sihir gibi, olağanüstü (above the ordinary, breathtaking, classical, dreamy, exceeding, exceptional, extra, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, huge, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, out of this world, paramount, phenomenal, portentous, preternatural, prodigious, rare, raving, remarkable, shining, smashing, special, spectacular, splendid, sublime, supernatural, supernormal, terrific, unearthly), büyücü (charmer, enchanter, magician, necromancer, sorcerer, Warlock, wise man, witch, wizard). (various references) | |
Ukranian | чаклунський (enchanting, hoodoo, weirdly, wizard), магічний (hermetic, magic, magical). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "necromantic": necromantically. (additional references) | |
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"Necromantic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: necromantia, neuromantic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-m-n-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: concertina. | |
-2 letters: accretion, anorectic, container, cremation, crenation, manticore, nonmetric. | |
-3 letters: accentor, acentric, acetonic, anointer, anoretic, cocinera, coinmate, concerti, cratonic, creation, intercom, monecian, narcotic, necrotic, nominate, noncrime, ornament, reaction, reanoint, romantic, trainmen. | |
-4 letters: aconite, acronic, acrotic, actinon, amniote, ancient, cannier, canonic, carmine, carotin, centimo, centric, ceramic, ceratin, cerotic, certain, cocaine, coenact, cointer, comatic, cometic, conceit, concent, concern, concert, connate, connect, contain, contemn, coremia, cornice, creatin, crocein, crocine, enactor, enation, encomia, entrain, erotica, incomer, intoner, mannite, mantric, mention, minaret, minorca, moneran, montane, moraine, mortice, narcein, nematic, nonmeat, noticer, oceanic, orectic, racemic, raiment, remnant, romaine, romance, tacrine, ternion, tonearm, tonemic. | |
-5 letters: accent, acetic, acetin, action, aeonic, airmen, amnion, ancone, anemic, anoint, anomic, anomie, aortic, arctic, aroint, atomic, atoner, atonic, camion, cancer, canine, canner, cannie, cannot, canter, cantic, canton, cantor, carmen, carnet, carnie, carton, cation, centai, centra, cicero, cinema, citron, coater, cocain, coiner, comate, conine, conner, contra, cornea, cornet, cortin, craton, cretic, cretin, enamor, enatic, encina, eonian, erotic, etamin, iceman, imaret, inaner, incant, income, inmate, innate, intern, intone, intron, macron, manioc, manito, manner, mantic, marine, marten, martin, matron, mentor, merino, metric, micron, mincer, minter, moaner, narine, nation, natron, nectar, nocent, noetic, nomina, nonart, norite, notice, octane, omenta, orcein, orient, ornate, ratine, ration, recant, recoin, remain, remint, retain, retina, tamein, tanner, tannic, tanrec, tinman, tinmen, tinner, tonier, tonner, trance. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-m-n-n-o-r-t" | |
+2 letters: nondemocratic. | |
+3 letters: econometrician. | |
+4 letters: countercampaign, counterclaiming, countermarching, econometricians, necromantically. | |
+5 letters: adenocarcinomata, countercampaigns, countercomplaint, intercommunicate, mechanoreception. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 63 72 6F 6D 61 6E 74 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . -.-. .-. --- -- .- -. - .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01100011 01110010 01101111 01101101 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e c r o m a n t i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0063 0072 006F 006D 0061 006E 0074 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4871698481796780867569 |
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