Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination from the forms assumed by drops of melted wax let fall into water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by dropping melted wax in water.
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- noun
divination by pouring melted wax into water and interpreting the bubbles formed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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By ceromancy, where, by the means of wax dissolved into water, thou shalt see the figure, portrait, and lively representation of thy future wife, and of her fredin fredaliatory belly-thumping blades.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By ceromancy, where, by the means of wax dissolved into water, thou shalt see the figure, portrait, and lively representation of thy future wife, and of her fredin fredaliatory belly-thumping blades.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By ceromancy, where, by the means of wax dissolved into water, thou shalt see the figure, portrait, and lively representation of thy future wife, and of her fredin fredaliatory belly-thumping blades.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
fbharjo commented on the word ceromancy
a different type of waxing and waning
August 24, 2009