necromancer

American  

[nek-ruh-man-ser] / ˈnɛk rəˌmæn sər /

noun

1. a person who uses witchcraft or sorcery, especially to reanimate dead people or to foretell the future by communicating with them.

   In the story, the boy is killed by a serial killer and then revived as a zombie by a necromancer.

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Etymology

Origin of necromancer

First recorded in 1540–50; equivalent to necromanc(y) ( def. ) + -er ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Or head up the hills to see about a necromancer who had been raising the dead?

From Los Angeles Times

There’s necromancers, locked room mysteries, dueling cavaliers, warring political factions, and more that it would be a shame to spoil.

From The Verge

Each of the Houses sends two representatives, a necromancer and their cavalier, to participate; Gideon is to be Harrow’s.

From New York Times

The necromancer has the ability to break “the sanctity of things as great as space and time,” revealing earth before human contamination.

From New York Times

“I have offered to finance a major interactive art installation in the form of a blazing eye at the very top of the building,” it quoted the necromancer as saying.

From The Guardian

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