Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Divination from the forms assumed by drops of melted wax let fall into water.
Wiktionary
- n. divination by pouring melted wax into water and interpreting the bubbles formed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Divination by dropping melted wax in water.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (keros), "wax". (Wiktionary)
Examples
“By ceromancy, where, by the means of wax dissolved into water, thou shalt see the figure, portrait, and lively representation of thy future wife, and of her fredin fredaliatory belly-thumping blades.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ceromancy’.
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The Whole Ball of Wax
Feel free to wax poetic.
the whole ball of..., wax poetic, wax, beeswax, ambergris, cedar waxwing, sealing wax, earwax, paraffin, bougie, epicuticular wax, waxing gibbous moon and 192 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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-mancy
mancies - fancy and otherwise - many from the vatic attic
aspidomancy, adiathermancy, aeromancy, xylomancy, chaomancy, stigonomancy, stichomancy, alectryomancy, ceromancy, spodomancy, chiromancy, coscinomancy and 81 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ceromancy.
fbharjo a different type of waxing and waning Aug 24, 2009