Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by means of the shades of the dead; psychomancy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by means of shadows.
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- noun
divination usingshadows - noun divination using
ghosts orspirits
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or, if you be afraid of the dead, as commonly all cuckolds are, I will make use of the faculty of sciomancy.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Or, if you be afraid of the dead, as commonly all cuckolds are, I will make use of the faculty of sciomancy.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Or, if you be afraid of the dead, as commonly all cuckolds are, I will make use of the faculty of sciomancy.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Other paths of inquiry have led to the practice of, for example, cleromancy, sciomancy, crystallomancy, alphitomancy, and spodomancy, to name only a few.
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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.
whichbe commented on the word sciomancy
Divination using ghosts or a spirit guide, a method generally employed by channelers.
May 13, 2008
fbharjo commented on the word sciomancy
the shadow knows
August 24, 2009