rhabdomancy

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What this strange art of rhabdomancy is I know not, but the "weeping" ash in our garden by the Coln is one of the most beautiful and shapely trees I ever saw.

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  1. noun Divination by means of a wand or rod, especially for discovering underground water or ores.

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  1. Late Greek rhabdomanteia : Greek rhabdos, rod; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots + Greek -manteia, -mancy.

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  1. Also rab-domancy; from French rhabdomancie, rhabdomance = Portuguese rhabdomancia = Italian rabdomanzia, from Greek ῤαβδομαντεία, divination by means of a rod, from ῤάβδος, a rod, + μαντεία, divination.
 

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/ˈræbdəmænsi/
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