hydromancy

hy·dro·man·cy

 (hī′drə-măn′sē)

n.

Divination by the observation of water.

---

[Middle English ydromancy, from Old French ydromancie, from Latin hydromantīa, from Greek hudromanteia : hudro-, hydro- + -manteia, -mancy.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

hydromancy

(ˈhaɪdrəʊˌmænsɪ)

n

(Alternative Belief Systems) divination by water

ˈhydroˌmancer n

ˌhydroˈmantic adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

hy•dro•man•cy

(ˈhaɪ drəˌmæn si)

n.

divination by means of the motions or appearance of water.

[1585–95; earlier hydromantie, -cie (< Middle French) « Late Greek hydromanteía divination by water. See hydro-¹, -mancy]

hy′dro•man`cer, n.

hy`dro•man′tic, adj.

Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

hydromancy

a form of divination involving observations of water or of other liquids.

See also: Divination, Water

-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

hydromancy

A form of scrying which in this case is divination by water. Pegomancy is a form of hydromancy.

Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

hydromancy - divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides) fortune telling, soothsaying, foretelling, divination - the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.