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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • 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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