necromantistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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necromantist (複数形 necromantists)

1. Synonym of necromancer.
   • 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 D^r. 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:

     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.

   • 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:

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

   • 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:

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

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

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

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