Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination in some manner by means of salt. Also written, less properly, alomancy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
alomancy .
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- noun Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ἅλς (hals, "salt") + μαντεία (manteia, "divination")
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