pyromancy

[pahy-ruh-man-see]

noun

1. divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.

pyromancy

/ ˈpaɪrəʊˌmænsɪ /

noun

1. divination by fire or flames

Other Word Forms

• pyromancer noun
• pyromantic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pyromancy¹

1325–75; Middle English piromancie < Medieval Latin pyromantīa < Greek pyromanteía divination by fire. See pyro-, -mancy

Example Sentences

Astragalomancy and all the different lettered dice seemed fun, but she wasn't interested in pyromancy and playing with fire messages.

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My Knight build has slowly drifted towards some pyromancy and a touch of sorcery.

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The eighth is entituled pyromancy; that is, when it instructs people by forms appearing in the fire.

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A German writer of the fifteenth century takes a less favourable view of what he calls pyromancy, although pyromancy is really divination by fire.

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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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