Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.
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- noun
Divination by interpreting sacred objects, often used in sacrificial offerings. Similar toaruspicy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So while I happen to find myself in Rome, I'm not going to be hanging out at the Temple of Jupiter … but I'm also not going to be out in the streets, screaming that hieromancy is wrong and must be stopped.
gordsellar.com 2010
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One who rails daily against hieromancy is likely to lose his own guts in the process.
gordsellar.com 2010
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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.
lampbane commented on the word hieromancy
Divination by studying the entrails of sacrifices.
December 1, 2007