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black art
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun black art has 1 sense
- black art(n = noun.cognition) black magic, necromancy, sorcery - the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world; Array is a kind of magic, thaumaturgy
has particulars: witchcraft, witchery, bewitchment, enchantment, demonism, diabolism, satanism, obiism
CIDE DICTIONARY
black art,
The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic. [1913 Webster]
" This name was given in the Middle Ages to necromancy, under the idea that the latter term was derived from niger black, instead of nekro`s , a dead person, and mantei`a , divination. Wright.
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