necromantia

• necromantea, necromantēa

From Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ne.kro.manˈtiː.a/, [nɛkrɔmän̪ˈt̪iːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ne.kro.manˈti.a/, [nekromän̪ˈt̪iːä]

necromantīa f (genitive necromantīae); first declension

1. necromancy
   • (Can we date this quote by Lactantius and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Institutiones Divinae, book 2, chapter 17:

     Astrologiam, aruspicinam et similes artes esse daemonum inventa.
     Eorum inventa sunt astrologia, et aruspicina, et auguratio, et ipsa quae dicuntur oracula, et necromantia, et ars magica, et quiquid praeterea malorum exercent homines, vel palam, vel occulte.

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     • 1871, Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, editors, Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325. Vol. XXI. The Works of Lactantius. Vol. I., Edinburgh, page 130:

       That astrology, soothsaying, and similar arts are the invention of demons.
       These were the inventors of astrology, and soothsaying, and divination, and those productions which are called oracles, and necromancy, and the art of magic, and whatever evil practices besides these men exercise, either openly or in secret.

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First-declension noun.

• “necromantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• necromantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• necromantia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016