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alphitomancy
[al-fit-uh-man-see]
noun
the use of barley meal as a means of divination.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of alphitomancy1
1645–55; < Greek álphito ( n ) barley + -mancy, probably influenced by Greek alphitómantis one who divines from barley meal
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Alphitomancy, by meal, flour, or bran.
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By alphitomancy, cried up by Theocritus in his Pharmaceutria.
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