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Webster 1913 Edition
Anthropomancy
An′thro-po-manˊcy
,Noun.
[Gr.
ἄνθρωποσ
man + -mancy
.] Divination by the entrails of human being.
Webster 1828 Edition
Anthropomancy
ANTHROPOM'ANCY
,Noun.
Divination by inspecting the entrails of a human being.
Definition 2024
anthropomancy
anthropomancy
English
Noun
anthropomancy (uncountable)
- divination by the interpretation of human sacrificial entrails.
Synonyms
- antinopomancy
Translations
divination by the interpretation of human sacrificial entrails
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References
- "Antinopomancy, [sic] by the entrails of men, women and children..." -- Gaule The Magastromancer xix, 1652
- "By anthropomancy, practised by the Roman Emperor Heliogabalus. It is somewhat irksome, but thou wilt endure well enough, seeing thou art destined to be a cuckold." -- Works of Rabelais III. xxv, 1951
- anthropomancy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- anthropomancy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- anthropomancy at OneLook Dictionary Search