lithomancy

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  1. Divination or prediction by means of stones. As strange must be the lithomancy, or divination from this stone, whereby Helenus the prophet foretold the destruction of Troy. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 3.

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  1. from Greek λίθος, stone, + μαντεία, divination, from μάντις, a diviner.
 

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