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Webster 1913 Edition


onomancy

on′o-manˊcy

,
Noun.
[Gr.
ὄνομα
name +
-mancy
. Cf.
Nomancy
.]
Divination by the letters of a name; nomancy.
[R.]
Camden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Onomancy

ON'OMANCY

,
Noun.
[Gr. name, and divination.] Divination by the letters of a name.
Destinies were superstitiously, by onomancy, deciphered out of names.

Definition 2024


onomancy

onomancy

English

Noun

onomancy (usually uncountable, plural onomancies)

  1. divination by the letters of a name; nomancy
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Camden to this entry?)