belomancy

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He practiced belomancy and consulted other auguries, to assure himself that he was against Jerusalem would result favorably.

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  1. A kind of divination by means of arrows, practised by the Scythians, Babylonians, Arabians, and other ancient peoples. A number of pointless arrows were variously marked and put into a bag or quiver, and then drawn out at random; the marks or words on the arrow drawn were taken as indications of what was to happen. Thus, Ezek. xxi. 21 (revised version): “For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro.” The arrow-divination or belomancy here mentioned [Ezek. xxi. 21] was done with pointless arrows marked and drawn as lots. Encyc. Brit., XV. 201.

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  1. from LGr. βελομαντία, from Greek βιλος, dart, arrow, + μαντεία, divination.
 

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