Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by means of a shoulder-blade: same as
omoplatoscopy .
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- noun
divination usingshoulder bones
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Examples
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The oddest of all has to be 'scapulimancy': seeing into the future by means of the cracks in shoulder blades.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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Reading bones has so many forms that it comes under many names: scapulimancy, omoplatoscopy, slinneanachd, oracle bones, etc.
village idiot savant Dominique 2009
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Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy.
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A lot of my work has to do with divination, whether it’s the shaking tent ritual,1 chants, or scapulimancy—which is the practice of reading scapulae or spealbones.
Brontomancy Timothy Archambault and Raven Chacon 2023
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A lot of my work has to do with divination, whether it’s the shaking tent ritual,1 chants, or scapulimancy—which is the practice of reading scapulae or spealbones.
Brontomancy Timothy Archambault and Raven Chacon 2023
trivet commented on the word scapulimancy
divination using shoulder blades
February 26, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word scapulimancy
Heavens.
Someone ought to consider making a list of "Specific Fortune-Telling" words. How bizarre!
March 4, 2007
reesetee commented on the word scapulimancy
They didn't have TV back then. What was a diviner to do on a boring Saturday night?
March 4, 2007
fbharjo commented on the word scapulimancy
how-to shoulder
August 24, 2009
qms commented on the word scapulimancy
An oracular fellow named Clancy
Claimed knowledge of scapulimancy.
But a blade from a sternum?
He could not discern 'em,
So forecasts were generally chancy.
October 13, 2016