hydromancy

Related to hydromancy: Astromancy

hy·dro·man·cy

(hī′drə-măn′sē)

Divination by the observation of water.

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

hydromancy

(ˈhaɪdrəʊˌmænsɪ)

(Alternative Belief Systems) divination by water

ˈhydroˌmancer n

ˌhydroˈmantic adj

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.

hydromancy

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

hydromancy

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

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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

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