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Definition of Onomancy
1. Noun. Divination by the letters of a name.
Definition of Onomancy
1. n. Divination by the letters of a name; nomancy.
Definition of Onomancy
1. Noun. divination by the letters of a name; nomancy ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Onomancy
Literary usage of Onomancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary (1873)
"POEM BY MILTON.—Can any of your readers tell me in what magazine an unpublished
poem by Milton was given a year or two ago ? G. WAKELING. onomancy. ..."
2. Credulities Past and Present: Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets by William Jones (1898)
"Two leading rules in what was called onomancy were first, that an even number of
vowels in a man's name signified something amiss in his left side ..."
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