Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: NEC-ROL'O-GY – NEC'TAR-OUS
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NEC-ROL'O-GY, n. [Gr. νεκρος, dead, and λογος, discourse.]
An account of the dead or of deaths; a register of deaths.
NEC'RO-MAN-CER, a. [See Necromancy.]
One who pretends to foretell future events by holding converse with departed spirits; a conjurer. Swift.
NEC'RO-MAN-CY, n. [Gr. νεκρος, dead, and μαντεια, divination.]
- The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead. This imposture is prohibited. Deut. xviii.
- Enchantment; conjuration. Abbot.
NEC-RO-MAN'TIC, a.
Pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy.
NEC-RO-MAN'TIC, n.
Trick; conjuration. Young.
NEC-RO-MAN'TIC-AL-LY, adv.
By necromancy or the black art; by conjuration. Gregory.
NEC'RO-NITE, n. [Gr. νεκρος, dead.]
Fetid feldspar, a mineral which, when struck or pounded, exhales a fetid odor like that of putrid flesh. Hayden.
NEC-ROPH'A-GOUS, a. [Gr. νεκρος and φαγω.]
Eating or feeding on the dead. Kirby.
NE-CROP'O-LIS, n. [Gr. νεκρος and πολις.]
A city of the dead.
NEC-RO-SCOP'IC, a. [Gr. νεκρος and σλοπεω.]
Relating to post-mortem examinations.
NE-CRO'SIS, a. [Gr. νεκρωσις.]
- Among physicians, mortification; the dry gangrene.
- Among surgeons, an inflammation of a bone terminating in its death.
NEC'TAR, n. [L. from the Greek.]
- In fabulous history and poetry, the drink of the gods; hence,
- Any very sweet and pleasant drink.
NEC-TA'RE-AN, or NEC-TA'RE-OUS, a.
Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant. The juice nectareous and the balmy dew. Pope.
NEC'TAR-ED, a.
Imbued with nectar; mingled with nectar; abounding with nectar. Milton.
NEC-TA'RE-OUS-LY, adv.
In a nectareous manner.
The quality of being nectareous.
NEC-TA'RI-AL, a.
Pertaining to the nectary of a plant. Stamens inserted into the margin of a glandulous nectarial ring. As. Res.
NEC-TAR-IF'ER-OUS, a. [nectar and fero, to bear.]
Producing nectar or honey; as, a nectariferous glandule. Lee.
NEC'TAR-INE, a.
Sweet as nectar.
NEC'TAR-INE, n.
A fruit resembling the peach, but with a smooth rind. It is the Persica lævis of De Candolle.
NEC-TA'RI-UM, n.
That part of a flower which secretes a honey-like substance.
NEC'TAR-IZE, v.t.
To sweeten. Cockeram.
NEC'TAR-IZ-ED, pp.
Sweetened.
NEC-TAR-IZ'ING, ppr.
Sweetening.
NEC'TAR-OUS, a.
Sweet as nectar. Milton.