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black art
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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. " Wright. [1913 Webster]
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