Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by means of ashes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by means of ashes.
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- noun
Divination by means ofashes .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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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.
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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.
sonofgroucho commented on the word spodomancy
"Divination by means of ashes.", apparently!
December 4, 2007