English

Alternative forms

• geomancie (Early Modern English)

Noun

geomancy ‎(usually uncountable, plural geomancies)

1. A method of divination which interprets markings on the ground or how handfuls of dirt land when tossed.

Derived terms

• geomantic

Translations

Quotations

• 1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv.

  Hard by here, in the Brown-wheat-Island, dwelleth Her Trippa; you know how by the Arts of Astrology, Geomancy, Chiromancy, Metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come...

• 1868 Chambers's Encyc. III

  Geomancy (this was anciently practised by casting pebbles on the ground, from which conjectures were formed; but the Arabian geomancy was more recondite, being founded on the effects of motion under the crust of the earth, the chinks thus produced, and the noises or thunderings heard)...

• 1970 Man, Myth & Magic v.

  Geomancy - by dots on paper, marks on the earth, or particles of earth.

Middle English

Alternative forms

Noun

geomancy (uncountable)

1. geomancy
   • 1425 Mandev. (Eg) 115/9

     At a syde of pe emperour table sittez many philosophers and grete clerkez of diuerse sciencez, sum of astronomy, sum of nigromancy, sum of geomancy, sum of pyromancy, sum of ydromancy.