Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Divination by inspecting the entrails of a human being.
Wiktionary
- n. divination by the interpretation of human sacrificial entrails.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Divination by the entrails of human being.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (anthropos, "man, mankind, human, humanity") + μαντεία (manteia, "divination"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“By anthropomancy, practised by the Roman Emperor Heliogabalus.”
“He was killed in the war, and never returned to Carra, but when, in the reign of Jovian, the seal was broken and the temple opened, a body was found hanging by its hair -- I will spare you the particulars; it was a case of that most awful form of sorcery -- _anthropomancy_! ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anthropomancy’.
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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
axilla, avalement, argil, argent, argand, arete, aretaics, areometer, areology, arenoid, arenaceous, arefy and 1214 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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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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whichbe Divination using human entrails. May 13, 2008
asativum Magic with people? Magic by people? Magic for people? Wait -- magic made from people? Dec 25, 2007