Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A method of divination by meal or flour, practised by the ancients.
Wiktionary
- n. divination using flour or flour-related products such as dough or cakes and fortune cookies
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Divination by means of flour.
Etymologies
- From aleuro- (“wheat flour”) + -mancy (“divination”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In a previous post I introduced you to the idea of divination by cheese (tyromancy) - and now I bring to you the alternative idea of aleuromancy (or alphitomancy) - or divination by bread (or a bread-like material).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aleuromancy’.
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-mancy, -mantic
denoting or relating to divination by a specified means
geomancy, necromantic, legilimancy, necromancy, rhabdomancy, alectryomancy, aleuromancy, alomancy, alphitomancy, ambulomancy, anthracomancy, anthropomancy and 144 more...
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
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phrontistery - a
from phrontistery.info
aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abasia, abask, abb, abba, abbatial, abra and 1214 more...
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-mancy
mancies - fancy and otherwise - many from the vatic attic
aspidomancy, adiathermancy, aeromancy, xylomancy, chaomancy, stigonomancy, stichomancy, alectryomancy, ceromancy, spodomancy, chiromancy, coscinomancy and 81 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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It's Magic!!
catoptromancy, thaumaturgy, legerdemain, aeromancy, ailuromancy, alectryomancy, aleuromancy, alphitomancy, ambulomancy, anthomancy, anthracomancy, anthropomancy and 100 more...
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Simply Divine
Methods of divination.
necromancy, aeromancy, astrology, bibliomancy, dowsing, extispicy, geomancy, graphology, hagiomancy, hieromancy, numerology, oneiromancy and 20 more...
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taking the auspices
Being kinds of and related to divination.
augur, catoptromancy, aleuromancy, aeromancy, austromancy, ceraunoscopy, chaomancy, nephomancy, meteormancy, ailuromancy, alectryomancy, gyromancy and 69 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir See also crithomancy. Jan 29, 2010
fbharjo the study of "how the cookie crumbles?" Aug 24, 2009
lampbane Divination using flour; also refers to fortune cookies. Nov 30, 2007