Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Divination by means of barley-meal.
Wiktionary
- n. Ancient Greek method of divination using barley meal.
- n. A divination practise used to reveal guilty parties my feeding a person or group barley meal. The innocent, it is said, would feel no effects, but the guilty would feel indigestion. Also known as Cursed Bread.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Divination by means of barley meal.
Examples
“By alphitomancy, cried up by Theocritus in his Pharmaceutria.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“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).”
“Other paths of inquiry have led to the practice of, for example, cleromancy, sciomancy, crystallomancy, alphitomancy, and spodomancy, to name only a few.”
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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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