Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In antiquity:
- noun A kind of divination among the ancients by means of words which seemed to be uttered from the belly; divination by ventriloquism.
- noun A species of divination by means of large-bellied glasses or other round transparent vessels, in the center of which figures were supposed to appear by magic art.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach.
- noun A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art.
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- noun
Divination by interpreting the sounds and signs of thebelly . It is now sometimes associated as being a form ofventriloquism , where vocal sounds are produced from the belly. - noun
Divination by noting magical visions in large-bellied glasses. It is sometimes described as a technique where a child is placed in front of a glass filled with water, the images in the glass were then interpreted. Similar tocrystallomancy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The other side of the coin is represented by gastromancy, which is not only a synonym for crystallomancy but also the term for divination by ventriloquism.
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By gastromancy, which kind of ventral fatiloquency was for a long time together used in Ferrara by Lady Giacoma Rodogina, the Engastrimythian prophetess.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By gastromancy, which kind of ventral fatiloquency was for a long time together used in Ferrara by Lady Giacoma Rodogina, the Engastrimythian prophetess.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By gastromancy, which kind of ventral fatiloquency was for a long time together used in Ferrara by Lady Giacoma Rodogina, the
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy.
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Necromancy, masters over ghosts and those who gain information from the dead, gastromancy and enchantment [
One Pissed Off Veteran Farnsworth68 2010
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Necromancy, masters over ghosts and those who gain information from the dead, gastromancy and enchantment [
One Pissed Off Veteran Farnsworth68 2010
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Divination by sounds from the belly.
May 13, 2008