Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Divination by interpretation of a passage chosen at random from a book, especially the Bible.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of divination performed by means of a book; specifically, divination by means of the Bible, consisting in selecting passages of Scripture at hazard and drawing from them indications concerning the future.
Wiktionary
- n. Divination by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, especially from the Bible.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.
Etymologies
- From biblio- + -mancy. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I'd just like to point out that there's a technical name for this approach to scriptural interpretation: "bibliomancy".”
“It was traditional bibliomancy called estekhareh, disdained by some clerics as irrational and akin to spiritual gambling, but a method sometimes used by Supreme Leader Khamenei.”
“It's intended as an idea generator, meant to spark thought through permutation, combination, and juxtaposition; a sort of constrained bibliomancy.”
“Labels: bibliomancy, richard mavis, seedy stories posted by John McGrath @ 2: 48 AM 1 Comments”
“Labels: bibliomancy, richard mavis, seedy stories posted by John McGrath @ 2: 48 AM”
“Outside his work his tastes lay in the direction of botany and bibliomancy, which latter, according to the dictionary, is "Divination performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard.”
“Just like one can gain inspiration for the solution to a problem in science or mathematics in a dream or a vision, one can gain it from using arbitrary forms of numerology or even games of chance (tarot, throwing dice, bibliomancy, i-ching) -- but to assume that the form and the content are necessarily interrelated is a mistake.”
“When I first got it (a wonderful $10 buy at bookstore that helps to support a women’s shelter in my home town of Cairns) and began reading, a friend told me that it could be used for bibliomancy.”
“Reading Lapham’s is like being an observer to the musings of an accomplished collector gripped by bibliomancy during an extended weekend visit to his abode.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bibliomancy’.
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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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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
bywoner, byssus, byssiferous, byssaceous, byrnie, butyric, butyraceous, buttery, buteonine, bunting, burdet, broma and 582 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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wanderstar's Words
superlative, mulish, mumps, catatonic, aquiline, clandestine, phantasmagoria, chryselephantine, microfiche, mutineer, reprobate, ruthless and 312 more...
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Manji's Random Wordlist
The title says it all
velour, vivacity, subterfuge, sable, divination, gentry, vindication, compendium, pistons, metamorphosis, methodology, polyphony and 91 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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misterspee's Words
prolepsis, cumin, nacreous, lucre, obstreperous, nibble, nubbin, kenosis, frangible, aposiopesis, synecdoche, persiflage and 144 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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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 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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die6die's Words
somnambulist, obfuscate, hirsute, kleptobibliomania, serendipitous, dissuade, duplicitous, zounds, lo, unleash, fortnight, thaumaturgy and 278 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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Biblio-Words
biblioclast, bibliognost, biblioklept, bibliokleptomaniac, bibliolatry, bibliomancy, bibliomane, bibliopegy, bibliophagist, bibliophobia, bibliopoesy, bibliopole and 19 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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religous
soteriology, haruspex, sympathetic magic, cargo cult, songline, deus ex machina, augury, bibliomancy, iconoclasm, teleology, eschatology, zoolatry and 70 more...
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Divine!
Other comparable lists on wordie include Papageno's It's Magic! and colleen's taking the auspices
catoptromancy, axinomancy, brontomancy, dririmancy, spatulamancy, scapulomancy, armomancy, spatilomancy, bibliomancy, stichomancy, sortilege, graptomancy and 25 more...
Tweets
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jmjarmstrong JM undertook bibliomancy and discovered he would write this exact sentence! Dec 14, 2009
john Reminds me of a favorite bar game from my misbegotten youth: psychic DJ. Stick a buck in the jukebox, close eyes, press buttons. Sep 26, 2009
thesaraheffect Ooh this amuses me! I know people who do this with the bible,
"God wanted me to read this today!"
"Or...mayhaps it's just windy?"
Oy! Makes me wanna love-thump 'em! Sep 26, 2009
yarb See also iroquois. Mar 26, 2008
reesetee How oracular. Nov 17, 2007
john Perhaps it should be renamed the logomancer ;-) Nov 16, 2007
uselessness I've had great success using Wordie's random word feature for prophetic purposes. Nov 16, 2007
john "Sometimes this term is used in the same way as Stichomancy and Libromancy, which is a form of divination that seeks to know the future by randomly selecting a passage from a book, frequently a sacred text."
- Wikipedia Nov 16, 2007