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rhadomancy

rhadomancy is the alternative form of rhabdomancy.

Meaning of rhabdomancy

Noun

rhabdomancy (uncountable)

  1. Divination with wands or rods, especially to use a divining rod to find things below the ground.
    • This question of buried treasure exercised the minds of ancient occultists considerably, and in connection with it there was frequently employed the art of Rhabdomancy, which was similar to that of water divining or water "dousing".1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 145
    Synonyms:
    dowsing

Words formed from rhadomancy

  • rhadomancer
  • rhadomant

Questions about rhadomancy

What is rhadomancy the alternative form of?
Rhadomancy is the alternative form of rhabdomancy.

Words near rhadomancy in the dictionary

  1. rhadinorhynchid
  2. rhadinorhynchids
  3. rhadinoviral
  4. rhadinovirus
  5. rhadinoviruses
  6. rhadomancy
  7. RHAe
  8. Rhaeadr
  9. rhaeb
  10. Rhaenicent
  11. Rhaetia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rhadomancy (page history and authors); rhabdomancy (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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