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Definition of Hydromancy
1. Noun. Divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides).
Derivative terms: Hydromancer
Definition of Hydromancy
1. n. Divination by means of water, -- practiced by the ancients.
Definition of Hydromancy
1. Noun. Divination by water or other liquid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hydromancy
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Medical Definition of Hydromancy
1. Divination by means of water, practiced by the ancients. Origin: Hydro-, 1 + -mancy: cf. F. Hydromancie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydromancy
Literary usage of Hydromancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries by Charles William Heckethorn (1875)
"Cagliostro's hydromancy.—But beside masonic delusions, Cagliostro made use of
the then little understood wonders of magnetism to attract adherents; ..."
2. Three Books of Occult Philosophy Or Magic by Willis F. Whitehead (1898)
"MOREOVER, the Elements themselves teach us fatal events; whence those four famous
kinds of divinations, Geomancy, hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, ..."
3. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1899)
"For Numa himself also, to whom no prophet of God, no holy angel was sent, was
driven to have recourse to hydromancy, that he might see the images of the ..."
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