Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by inspection of the entrails of sacrificial victims.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by inspection of entrails of victims offered in sacrifice.
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- noun
hieromancy
Etymologies
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hiero- + -scopy
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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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