Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by the burning of frankincense.
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- noun
Divination by interpreting burningincense smoke . Started inMesopotamia and later travelled toEgypt andEurope . A form ofcapnomancy .
Etymologies
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From Greek libanos, frankincense.
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Examples
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By libanomancy, for the which we shall need but a little frankincense.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By libanomancy, for the which we shall need but a little frankincense.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
hernesheir commented on the word libanomancy
A unfolding frankincense smoke-curl revealed to me that libanomancy is not yet found on any of the divination or -mancy lists.
January 4, 2012