Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Divination by fire or flames.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by fire, or by the forms appearing in fire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by means of fire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Divination byfire ; the use of fire tosupernaturally gain information. - noun The
magical power ofconjuring or controlling fire.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun divination by fire or flames
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I’ve had good luck with an obsidian sphere, a dark window at night, and candle flames when you use a fire or candle flame, it’s called pyromancy.
Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002
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I’ve had good luck with an obsidian sphere, a dark window at night, and candle flames when you use a fire or candle flame, it’s called pyromancy.
Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002
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"pyromancy," if in the entrails of animals sacrificed on the altars of demons, "aruspicy."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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When I still had a demonic patron, I could tap into other branches of magic, like pyromancy—that sort of thing.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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The Pythia had forced Cassie to try pyromancy, once.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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The Pythia had forced Cassie to try pyromancy, once.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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When I still had a demonic patron, I could tap into other branches of magic, like pyromancy—that sort of thing.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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Sophia had no talent for pyromancy; oracles usually only had one talent, sometimes two.
Dark Oracle Alayna Williams 2010
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Not scrying, not psychometry, not pyromancy — no form of divination or clairvoyance that she tried had revealed either Eric or Magnus's location.
Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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Not scrying, not psychometry, not pyromancy-no form of divination or clairvoyance that she tried had revealed either Eric or Magnus's location.
Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
lampbane commented on the word pyromancy
Divination by fire.
December 1, 2007