Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Divination by means of the heads or the entrails of fishes.
Wiktionary
- n. Divination interpreting the appearance and behaviour of fish. A form of augury.
- n. Divination interpreting the entrails of fish. A form of aruspicy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.
Etymologies
- ichthyo- + -mancy, from Ancient Greek ichthyo- stem from ichthys, a "fish". (Wiktionary)
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-mancy, -mantic
denoting or relating to divination by a specified means
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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...
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phrontistery - i
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iamatology, iamb, ianthine, iatraliptic, iatramelia, iatrarchy, iatrochemistry, iatrogenic, iatrology, iatromathematics, iatrophobia, ibidem and 510 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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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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It's Magic!!
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Fishful thinking
"It was then that Delirium noticed that she had absent-mindedly transformed into a hundred and eleven perfect, tiny multicolored fish."
Assortment of fishy or somehow entertaining fish...piscary, fishery, hatchery, pisces, piscine, piscation, piscatorial, pescetarian, piscivorous, expiscate, expiscatory, fishmonger and 81 more...
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she Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes. Jul 16, 2008