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crithomancy

crithomancy noun: divination by interpreting food, usually bread and grain used in sacrifice.

Noun

crithomancy (uncountable)

  1. Divination by interpreting food, usually bread and grain used in sacrifice.
    • Crithomancy, by grain, or corn...1652 Gaule The Magastromancer xix.

Forms of crithomancy

alternative formcritomancy
alternative formkrithomancy

Origin of crithomancy

Ancient Greek κριθομαντεία (krithomanteía, “divination by barley”), from κριθή (krithḗ, “barley”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”).

Questions about crithomancy

What does crithomancy mean?
Crithomancy means divination by interpreting food, usually bread and grain used in sacrifice.
What part of speech is crithomancy?
Crithomancy is a noun.

Words near crithomancy in the dictionary

  1. Crites
  2. Criteses
  3. crith
  4. crithidial
  5. crithmumdiol
  6. crithomancy
  7. criths
  8. critic
  9. critical
  10. critical altitude
  11. critical altitudes

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