Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of divination by means of the scapula or shoulder-blade. Also called
scapulimancy .
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- noun
divination by use of ashoulder blade
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Examples
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Reading bones has so many forms that it comes under many names: scapulimancy, omoplatoscopy, slinneanachd, oracle bones, etc.
village idiot savant Dominique 2009
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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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