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alphitomancy

American  
[al-fit-uh-man-see] / ælˈfɪt əˌmæn si /

noun

  1. the use of barley meal as a means of divination.

Etymology

Origin of alphitomancy

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

Example Sentences

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Alphitomancy, by meal, flour, or bran.

From Project Gutenberg

By alphitomancy, cried up by Theocritus in his Pharmaceutria.

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