Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of divination practised among the ancients by means of cakes offered in sacrifice, or of meal spread over the victim.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Divination by interpreting food, usually bread and grain used in sacrifice.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Ancient Greek κριθομαντεία (krithomanteia, "divination by barley"), from κριθή (krithe, "barley") + μαντεία (manteia, "divination").
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word crithomancy.
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
fbharjo commented on the word crithomancy
true gist
August 24, 2009