Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by inspecting the entrails of a human being.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by the entrails of human being.
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- noun
divination by the interpretation ofhuman sacrificial entrails .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (anthropos, "man, mankind, human, humanity") + μαντεία (manteia, "divination").
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Examples
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By anthropomancy, practised by the Roman Emperor Heliogabalus.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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He was killed in the war, and never returned to Carra, but when, in the reign of Jovian, the seal was broken and the temple opened, a body was found hanging by its hair -- I will spare you the particulars; it was a case of that most awful form of sorcery -- _anthropomancy_! "
Brood of the Witch-Queen Sax Rohmer 1921
asativum commented on the word anthropomancy
Magic with people? Magic by people? Magic for people? Wait -- magic made from people?
December 25, 2007
whichbe commented on the word anthropomancy
Divination using human entrails.
May 13, 2008