hydromancy
Americannoun
noun
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- hydromancer noun
- hydromantic adjective
Etymology
Origin of hydromancy
1585–95; earlier hydromantie, -cie (< Middle French ) ≪ Late Greek hydromanteía divination by water; replacing Middle English ydromancye < Middle French ydromancie < L. See hydro- 1, -mancy
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Thirdly, If any person in order to discover the future, had employed geomancy, hydromancy, a�romancy, piromancy, onomancy, necromancy, or sorceries by beans, dice, or wheat.
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The sixth is named hydromancy, as when a demon teaches anything by appearances in the water.
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In this work he also treated of the origin of hydromancy, and other superstitious divinations.
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And at one side of the emperor’s table sit many philosophers that be proved for wise men in many diverse sciences, as of astronomy, necromancy, geomancy, pyromancy, hydromancy, of augury and of many other sciences.
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How many that are for hydromancy, that pretend in water to show men mighty mysteries?
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