English

Noun

anthropomancy ‎(uncountable)

1. divination by the interpretation of human sacrificial entrails.

Synonyms

• antinopomancy

Translations

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