Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The practice of predicting the future through interpretation of dreams.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination through dreams; the art of taking omens from dreams.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by means of dreams.
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- noun
Divination by theinterpretation ofdreams .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun divination through the interpretation of dreams
Etymologies
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Examples
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This history, and many others, may serve to prove that the laws of the Jews did not forbid oneiromancy, that is to say, the science of dreams.
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It is like oneiromancy, or the explanation of dreams.
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Waking Life is much more like My Dinner With Andre, with philisophical conversations that range from the banal to the profound, involving Kierkegaard, Sarte, oneiromancy, Philip K. Dick, Gnosticism, how to be better at lucid dreaming, and so on.
Waking Life badger 2001
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We have established this divine intervention by every means at our disposal: divination, clairvoyance, oneiromancy, and every variety of verification we-could devise.
The Misenchanted Sword Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1985
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According to the philosophy of oneiromancy, or the art of taking omens from dreams, during sleep the soul was released from the body, and thus enabled to soar into spiritual regions and commune with celestial beings.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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Necromancy is mixed with oneiromancy in the case of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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When Sally was not cooking for the little invalid, she was crying; for she had had a dream about green rushes, not three months ago, which, by some queer process of oneiromancy she interpreted to mean the death of a child; and all Miss Benson's endeavours were directed to making her keep silence to Ruth about this dream.
Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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But even where such a consciousness may be supposed, as in the case of oneiromancy, or prophecy by means of dreams, it must be supposed limited, and the more limited in a personal sense as they are illimitable in a sublime one.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822
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But even where such a consciousness may be supposed, as in the case of oneiromancy, or prophecy by means of dreams, it must be supposed limited, and the more limited in a personal sense as they are illimitable in a sublime one.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Rational Review 2009
smilefeo commented on the word oneiromancy
The practice of predicting the future through interpretation of dreams.
Greek oneiros, dream + –MANCY.
March 4, 2007
qms commented on the word oneiromancy
Or are night visions pure fantasy?
The past can, it seems,
Make sense in our dreams,
But future sight’s oneiromancy.
March 24, 2014