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geomancy
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ge·o·man·cy  (j-mns)
n.
Divination by means of lines and figures or by geographic features.

[Middle English geomancie, from Medieval Latin gemantia, from Late Greek gemanteia, divination by signs from the earth : Greek ge-, geo- + Greek -manteia, -mancy.]

geo·mancer n.
geo·mantic (-tk) adj.

geomancy [ˈdʒiːəʊˌmænsɪ]
n
(Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) prophecy from the pattern made when a handful of earth is cast down or dots are drawn at random and connected with lines
geomancer  n
geomantic  adj

geomancy
a form of divination that analyzes the pattern of a handful of earth thrown down at random or dots made at random on paper. — geomancer, n.
See also: Earth
a form of divination that analyzes the pattern of a handful of earth thrown down at random or of dots made at random on paper. — geomancer, n.
See also: Divination
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Noun1.geomancy - divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another)
fortune telling, soothsaying, foretelling, divination - the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
Translations
geomancy
nGeomantie f


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teachers of the spectral art that comprises monsters, omens, displays, prodigies, and such similar, prognosticators or natural presagers, teachers of oracles, sorcerers and especially those drawing lots, interpreters of dreams, physiognomists, metoposcopists, pyromaniacs, hydromancers, aeromancers, geomancers, chiromancers, and such similar.
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