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ichnomancy

ichnomancy noun: divination by observing a person's or animal's footprints.

Noun

ichnomancy (uncountable)

  1. Divination by observing a person's or animal's footprints.
    • We'd already covered alomancy, or divination by salt; abacomancy, or divination through dust or ashes; and ichnomancy, where we read our futures from our footprints.2020, Alicia Rades, The Reaper's Shadow

Origin of ichnomancy

From ichno- + -mancy.

Questions about ichnomancy

What does ichnomancy mean?
Ichnomancy means divination by observing a person's or animal's footprints.
What part of speech is ichnomancy?
Ichnomancy is a noun.

Words near ichnomancy in the dictionary

  1. ichnologically
  2. ichnologies
  3. ichnologist
  4. ichnologists
  5. ichnology
  6. ichnomancy
  7. ichnomorphologic
  8. ichnomorphological
  9. ichnomorphology
  10. ichnomorphotype
  11. ichnomorphotypes

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