necromantist

plural necromantists

1. Synonym of necromancer.

   The necromantist professed to hear voices from graves, and to bring back tidings from the bosom of hell.

   1858 April, “The Worshippers of Mercury; or, Paracelsus and His Brother Alchymists. Part II.”, in The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, volume LI, number CCCIV, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, and Co., […]; London: Hurst & Blackett, page 427, column 2

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   I told him, that at a Noble-mans Table, There was, of great account, who ſaid, that there was an Engliſh man, come to the Emperours, A bankrupt Alchimiſt, a Conjurer, and Necromantiſt: who had ſold his own goods, and given the Lord Laſkie the money: and that he had beguiled him: and that now he would fain get ſome of the Emperour his money from him, &c.

   1584 September 27, John Dee, “Mysteriorum Pragensium Liber Primus, Caesareusque, Anno 1584. Stylo Novo.”, in A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers Between Dʳ. John Dee (a Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. And King James Their Reignes) and Some Spirits: Tending (Had It Succeeded) to a General Alteration of Most States and Kingdomes in the World. […], London: […] D. Maxwell, for T. Garthwait, […], published 1659, page 247

   So much for the Ninth term of deſcription of a Witch in the text, a Necromantiſt, one that aſketh counſel of the dead.

   1655, Thomas Ady, A Candle in the Dark: Shewing the Divine Cause of the Distractions of the Whole Nation of England, and of the Christian World. […], London: […] Robert Ibb’tson […], page 85

   She shrank close against the wall, wondering who could be in her mother’s shrine, fearing tomb robbers, necromantists.

   1996, Sarah Ash, Songspinners, London: Millennium, →ISBN, page 7

   Synonyms: necromancer