Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Divination by the casting of lots.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by throwing dice or lots, and interpreting according to certain rules the points or marks turned up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Divination by casting lots (sortilege ). - noun
Divination by throwing dice or any such marked objects, like beans, pebbles, or bone.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Medieval Latin clēromantīa : Greek klēros, lot + Late Latin -mantīa, -mancy; see –mancy.]
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Ancient Greek kleros, "a lot".
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Examples
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Hebrews and Christians practiced the ancient magical art of cleromancy, otherwise known as “casting lots to divine the will of Providence.”
Another Conservative Christian Repudiation of the Bible James F. McGrath 2009
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Other paths of inquiry have led to the practice of, for example, cleromancy, sciomancy, crystallomancy, alphitomancy, and spodomancy, to name only a few.
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