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- noun Plural form of
geomancer .
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Examples
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Ahnenerbe archaeologists, Troche claimed, mined historic sites for evidence of Aryan culture, linguists studied ancient place names to create maps tracing Aryan migrations, and geomancers, studying electromagnetic fields, divined sacred Aryan sites that were conducive to future Nazi settlements.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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Ahnenerbe archaeologists, Troche claimed, mined historic sites for evidence of Aryan culture, linguists studied ancient place names to create maps tracing Aryan migrations, and geomancers, studying electromagnetic fields, divined sacred Aryan sites that were conducive to future Nazi settlements.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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The earliest compasses were used by geomancers, specialists who located the spots that would bode well for a building or a village by determining the dragon lines.
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Then we strode about like geomancers, debating the most propitious site.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Then we strode about like geomancers, debating the most propitious site.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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A bustling alley near Xian's Taoist Temple of the Eight Immortals is packed with fortune tellers, geomancers and peddlers of funeral accouterments.
Apocalypse When 2008
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There was no such thing as a poorly furnished home in the Queendom of Sol, but there were copyrighted patterns available only to those with money, and there were expert decorators and geomancers who could customize a space to its owners with striking -- and strikingly expensive -- skill.
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It is not, however, idol worship which sits like a nightmare on China, and crushes atheists, agnostics, and heathens alike, but ancestral worship, and the tyranny of the astrologers and geomancers.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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As Chia Chen realised that the day for escorting the body away was drawing nigh, he in person went out in a curricle, along with geomancers, to the Temple of the Iron Fence to inspect a suitable place for depositing the coffin.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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In the morning thereafter he killed her, and took that part of her which the Greek geomancers know, and cut it into several small pieces as small as he could.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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