anthropomancy

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By anthropomancy, practised by the Roman Emperor Heliogabalus.

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  • By anthropomancy, practised by the Roman Emperor Heliogabalus. —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
  • 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_! " —  Brood of the Witch-Queen
 

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  1. = French anthropomancie, from Greek ἂνθρωπος, man, + μαντεία, divination. Cf. necromancy.
 

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