lecanomancy

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Have you a mind, quoth Herr Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by pyromancy, by aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his Clouds maketh great estimation, by hydromancy, by lecanomancy, of old in prime request amongst the Assyrians, and thoroughly tried by

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  1. Divination by throwing three stones into water in a basin and invoking the aid of a demon.

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  • Have you a mind, quoth Herr Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by pyromancy, by aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his Clouds maketh great estimation, by hydromancy, by lecanomancy, of old in prime request amongst the Assyrians, and thoroughly tried by —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
 

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  1. from Greek λεκανομαντεία, dish-divination, from λεκάνη, a dish, pan, pot (from λέκος, a dish, plate, pan, pot), + μαντεία, divination. Cf. λεκανόμαντις, a dish-diviner.
 

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