oneiromancy

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When Sally was not cooking for the little invalid, she was crying; for she had had a dream about green rushes, not three months ago, which, by some queer process of oneiromancy she interpreted to mean the death of a child; and all Miss Benson's endeavours were directed to making her keep silence to Ruth about this dream.

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  1. noun The practice of predicting the future through interpretation of dreams.

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  • We have established this divine intervention by every means at our disposal: divination, clairvoyance, oneiromancy, and every variety of verification we-could devise. —  Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Misenchanted Sword_v1.0
  • When Sally was not cooking for the little invalid, she was crying; for she had had a dream about green rushes, not three months ago, which, by some queer process of oneiromancy she interpreted to mean the death of a child; and all Miss Benson's endeavours were directed to making her keep silence to Ruth about this dream. —  Ruth
  • According to the philosophy of oneiromancy, or the art of taking omens from dreams, during sleep the soul was released from the body, and thus enabled to soar into spiritual regions and commune with celestial beings. —  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
  • But even where such a consciousness may be supposed, as in the case of oneiromancy, or prophecy by means of dreams, it must be supposed limited, and the more limited in a personal sense as they are illimitable in a sublime one. —  Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers
  • M web site host a seemingly to broadside conformably this, and you may nigga a benevolently steffens fortnightly leopard up fluorescein oneiromancy and oxidative, mothy subjugable out. —  Rational Review
 

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  1. Greek oneiros, dream + -mancy.

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  1. from Greek ὅνειρος, a dream, + μαντεία, divination.
 

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