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chaomancy

chaomancy noun: divination by aerial visions, a form of aeromancy.

Noun

chaomancy (uncountable)

  1. Divination by aerial visions, a form of aeromancy.
    • Chaomancy shews its Signs by the Stars of the Air and Wind, by the discolouring, destroying of all tender and subtil things […] If the Stars of Chaomancy are moved, Spirits fall from the superiour Air, and Voices and Answers were often heard […] There are seen Hobgoblins, Household Gods, airy...1650 French tr. Paracelsus Nine Books Of the Nature of Things (1674) ix.
    • chaomancy...Fortune-telling by aerial apparitions.1908 Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dict. i.

Origin of chaomancy

From chao- (in a Paracelsian sense "atmosphere") + -mancy. By surface analysis, chao- + -mance + -y.

Questions about chaomancy

What does chaomancy mean?
Chaomancy means divination by aerial visions, a form of aeromancy.
What part of speech is chaomancy?
Chaomancy is a noun.

Words near chaomancy in the dictionary

  1. chaological
  2. chaologies
  3. chaologist
  4. chaologists
  5. chaology
  6. chaomancy
  7. chaomian
  8. Chaon
  9. Chaonan
  10. chaoni
  11. chaonis

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