Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A species of divination performed by burning straws, etc., upon red-hot iron, and observing their bendings, figures, sparkling, and burning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning.
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- noun
divination by studying theburning ofstraws on heatediron
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek iron + -mancy.
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Examples
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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.
mercy commented on the word sideromancy
divination by the stars
July 13, 2008
john commented on the word sideromancy
Stars, or straws?
August 9, 2010
qroqqa commented on the word sideromancy
The Latin sidus, sider- is "star", but the Greek sidêr- is "iron". The genuinely Greek-derived word for divination by the stars would be 'astromancy'.
August 9, 2010