alphitomancy

[ al-fit-uh-man-see ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

1645–55; < Greek álphito ( n ) barley + -mancy, probably influenced by Greek alphitómantis one who divines from barley meal

The expression which I should have employed was alphitomancy, a divination "by meal, flower, or branne."

By alphitomancy, cried up by Theocritus in his Pharmaceutria.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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