cleromancy

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cler·o·man·cy

(klēr′ə-măn′sē, klĕr′-)

Divination by the casting of lots.

[Medieval Latin clēromantīa : Greek klēros, lot + Late Latin -mantīa, -mancy; see -mancy.]

cler′o·man′cer n.

cleromancy

(ˈklɛrəˌmænsɪ)

n, pl -cies

a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting

cleromancy

astragalomancy.

cleromancy

An alternative name for sortilege.

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If, as Adrienne Rich argues, writing is re-naming, when dealing with the long dead, writing also becomes a form of cleromancy (the casting of bones, lots or stones).

Wet their bones with sweat and blood, knit their bones with me: reflections on arts-based research into colonial Western Australian child murder (1829-1901)

Gambling studies should take a broad view of the field and consider activities that are not strictly gambling but similar to it, such as cleromancy and secular uses of drawing of lots, to give us perspective on societal and cultural aspects of gambling.

Games of life and death: the judicial uses of dice in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Sweden

Arnold, "Necromancy and Cleromancy in I and II Samuel," CBQ 66 (2004):203.

Saul and the "witch of En-Dor"

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