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hidromancy

hidromancy is the obsolete form of hydromancy.

Meaning of hydromancy

Noun

hydromancy (usually uncountable, plural hydromancies)

  1. (usually) Divination by water or other liquid.
    • Hydromancy is the supposed art of divining by water. The Persians, according to Varro, invented it; Pythagoras and Numa Pompilius made use of it; and we still admire the like wonderful prognosticators.1797, Encyclopædia Britannica, 3rd edition

Questions about hidromancy

What is hidromancy the obsolete form of?
Hidromancy is the obsolete form of hydromancy.

Words near hidromancy in the dictionary

  1. hidrocystoma
  2. hidrocystomas
  3. hidrocystomata
  4. Hidrogo
  5. Hidrogos
  6. hidromancy
  7. hidromeiosis
  8. hidroses
  9. hidrosis
  10. hidrotic
  11. hidrotics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hidromancy (page history and authors); hydromancy (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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