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archaeomancy

archaeomancy noun: divination using sacred relics.

Noun

archaeomancy (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Divination using sacred relics.
    • Predicting the Future State of the World Using Archaeological Data: An Exercise in Archaeomancy2004 May, Peter N. Peregrine, “Predicting the Future State of the World Using Archaeological Data: An Exercise in Archaeomancy”, in Cross-Cultural Research, volume 38, number 2, title, page 133
    • He thinks that in ancient Camanac if skills like yours were common they'd have had names for them– archaeomancy, chronomancy, kineomancy. That sort of thing.2014, C. L. Holland, Conversations with Dragons, page 8

Forms of archaeomancy

alternative formarcheomancy

Origin of archaeomancy

From archaeo- + -mancy, from Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “ancient”) and μαντεία (manteía, “prophecy”).

Questions about archaeomancy

What does archaeomancy mean?
Archaeomancy means divination using sacred relics.
What part of speech is archaeomancy?
Archaeomancy is a noun.

Words near archaeomancy in the dictionary

  1. archaeomaenids
  2. archaeomagnetic
  3. archaeomagnetism
  4. archaeomalacological
  5. archaeomalacology
  6. archaeomancy
  7. archaeomaterial
  8. archaeomaterials
  9. archaeome
  10. archaeomes
  11. archaeometallurgical

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