Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Divination by means of a head. See also cephalonomancy.
Wiktionary
- n. Divination by the study of the skull or head of a donkey or goat. Sometimes mentioned as the roasting of an ass's head on hot coals.
Etymologies
- cephalo- + -mancy, from Ancient Greek kephalos, "head". (Wiktionary)
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-mancy, -mantic
denoting or relating to divination by a specified means
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-mancy
mancies - fancy and otherwise - many from the vatic attic
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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.
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religous
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john “Divination by study of the shape of the skull or head, esp. of a donkey or goat.�? Many citations here. Apr 4, 2009
strev ask Michael Jackson Apr 3, 2009