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alectoromancy

alectoromancy is the alternative form of alectryomancy.

Meaning of alectryomancy

Noun

alectryomancy (uncountable)

  1. A form of divination in which the diviner observes a bird or birds (preferably a white rooster or cockerel) pecking at grain that the diviner has scattered on the ground.
    • "Alectromancy, by Cooks [sic] or Pullen..." -- The Magastromancer xix, Gaule, 1652

Questions about alectoromancy

What is alectoromancy the alternative form of?
Alectoromancy is the alternative form of alectryomancy.

Words near alectoromancy in the dictionary

  1. alectorians
  2. alectorioid
  3. alectorioids
  4. alectormancy
  5. alectoromachy
  6. alectoromancy
  7. alectoronic acid
  8. Alectown
  9. alectromanchy
  10. alectromancy
  11. alectryomachy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alectoromancy (page history and authors); alectryomancy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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