necromancy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

NECROMANCY, noun [Gr. Dead, and divination.] 1. The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead. This imposture is prohibited. Deuteronomy 18:1. 2. Enchantment; conjuration.
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