geomancies

Noun

geomancy (usually uncountable, plural geomancies)

1. (usually) A method of divination using earth or the ground, such as interpreting markings on the ground or how handfuls of dirt land when tossed.
   • Hard by here, in the Brown-wheat-Island, dwelleth Her Trippa; you know how by the Arts of Astrology, Geomancy, Chiromancy, Metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come...1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv.
2. (usually) feng shui; Chinese geomancy.
   • geomancy [...] The pretended art of divining future events, or of ascertaining the luckiness or unluckiness of any event or locality, by means of signs connected with the earth [...] or, as in China, from the configuration and aspect of a particular region in its relation to some other.1899, William Dwight Whitney, The Century Dictionary, volume III, page 61