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zoomancy

zoomancy noun: divination by means of animals.

Noun

zoomancy (uncountable)

  1. divination by means of animals
    • Yet why should so many generations have believed in divination by birds, and even in zoomancy, said by Suidas to have been imparted by Orpheus, who taught how to perceive in the yoke and white of the egg, under certain conditions, that which the bird born from it would have seen around it during...1888, H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, The Theosophical Publishing Company, Limited (1888), pages 362-363
    • The speech takes the form of a zoomancy, with no act of zoomancy in evidence.1994, Michael David Cooperson, The Heirs of the Prophets in Classical Arabic Biography, page 207

Origin of zoomancy

From zoo- + -mancy.

Questions about zoomancy

What does zoomancy mean?
Zoomancy means divination by means of animals.
What part of speech is zoomancy?
Zoomancy is a noun.

Words near zoomancy in the dictionary

  1. Zoomali
  2. Zoomalia
  3. Zoomalian
  4. Zoomalians
  5. Zoomalis
  6. zoomancy
  7. zoomania
  8. zoomantic
  9. zoomaric
  10. zoomass
  11. zoomasses

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