What is the difference between necromancy and witch?
necromancy | witch |
Divination involving the dead or death.
* 1597 King James Daemonologie
* 1652 Gaule The Magastromancer
* 1867 E. Rogers, quoted in K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic
* 1920 L. Spence Encyc. Occult
Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising]] or [[reanimate, reanimating the dead.
A person who practices witchcraft; specifically:
#A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
#*(rfdate) Shakespeare:
#*:He cannot abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch .
#(label) A Wiccan.
# A man who practices witchcraft.
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#*:Some of the kynges had merueyl of Merlyns wordes and demed well that it shold be as he said / And som of hem lough hym to scorne / as kyng Lot / and mo other called hym a wytche / But thenne were they accorded with Merlyn that kynge Arthur shold come oute and speke with the kynges
#*(rfdate) Wyclif Bible (Acts viii. 9)
#*:There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch .
(label) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
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:(Shakespeare)
One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
(label) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera .
The stormy petrel.
Any of a number of flatfish:
# (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.
# (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
#, found near New Zealand.
(obsolete) To practise witchcraft
To bewitch
To dowse for water
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
English terms with homophones
As nouns the difference between necromancy and witch
is that necromancy is divination involving the dead or death while witch is a person who practices witchcraft; specifically.As a verb witch is
to practise witchcraft.necromancy
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Alternative forms
* necyomancy, egromancyNoun
- And for to make this treatise the more pleasaunt and facill, I have put it in forme of a Dialogue, which I have diuided into three bookes: The first speaking of Magie in general, and Necromancie in special.
- And in one word for all, Nagomancy', or ' Necromancy ; by inspecting, consulting, and divining by, with, or from the dead.
- the Devil did often tempt me to study necromancy' and ' nigromancy and to make use of magic, and to make a league with him...
- There is no doubt..that necromancy is the touch-stone of occultism...
Derived terms
* thread necromancywitch
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) wicche, from (etyl) .Noun
(es)Synonyms
* (female magic user) wizardess, sorceress * (male magic user) wizard, sorcerer, warlock * (an ugly or unpleasant woman) See ,Derived terms
(terms derived from witch) * bewitch * cold as a witch's tit * man-witch * nonwitch * witch ball * witchcraft * witch doctor * witches' brew * witches' knickers * witches' Sabbath * witchfinder * witch grass * witch hazel * witch-hunt * witching hour * witchyExternal links
* (projectlink) * (Arnoglossus scapha) * (Arnoglossus scapha)Verb
(es)- 'It approaches the witching hour'.