Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by lines or passages in books taken at hazard; bibliomancy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
divination byrandomly selectinglines orpassages frombooks
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek στίχος (stikhos, "line, row, verse") and Ancient Greek μαντεία (manteia, "divination"); see -mancy.
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Examples
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You can pick a Joan Didion essay by stichomancy with the White album or Slouching Toward Bethleham.
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Also look out for his biorhythm, runes, I Ching, stichomancy and tarot readings.
john commented on the word stichomancy
See bibliomancy
November 16, 2007
qms commented on the word stichomancy
Did Ernest mislead by design?
The preacher, not bright but benign,
Assembles his homily
By means of stichomancy
Because he was told it's divine.
Find out more about Ernest Bafflewit
December 11, 2016