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alphitomancy

[al-fit-uh-man-see]

noun

  1. 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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Example Sentences

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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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