Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Divination by means of a shoulder-blade: same as omoplatoscopy.
Wiktionary
- n. divination using shoulder bones
Examples
“The oddest of all has to be 'scapulimancy': seeing into the future by means of the cracks in shoulder blades.”
“Reading bones has so many forms that it comes under many names: scapulimancy, omoplatoscopy, slinneanachd, oracle bones, etc.”
“Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scapulimancy’.
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-mancy, -mantic
denoting or relating to divination by a specified means
geomancy, necromantic, legilimancy, necromancy, rhabdomancy, alectryomancy, aleuromancy, alomancy, alphitomancy, ambulomancy, anthracomancy, anthropomancy and 144 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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know-it-all
eunuch, couvade, ecclesiastes, enigma, inevitable, crucible, genteel, bedlam, baculum, scapulimancy, atrophy, smut and 170 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!!
catoptromancy, thaumaturgy, legerdemain, aeromancy, ailuromancy, alectryomancy, aleuromancy, alphitomancy, ambulomancy, anthomancy, anthracomancy, anthropomancy and 100 more...
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Classical (Greco-Roman)
Via the classical world.
abhor, entrails, spawn, forge, gorge, profound, assail, sarcophagus, pyre, adamant, attest, salient and 80 more...
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laurea's Words
lackadaisical, laelia, laurel, frippery, lascivious, cacophony, effectuate, leukorrhea, kerfluffle, nickelodeon, garrulous, onomastics and 63 more...
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taking the auspices
Being kinds of and related to divination.
augur, catoptromancy, aleuromancy, aeromancy, austromancy, ceraunoscopy, chaomancy, nephomancy, meteormancy, ailuromancy, alectryomancy, gyromancy and 69 more...
Tweets
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fbharjo how-to shoulder Aug 24, 2009
reesetee They didn't have TV back then. What was a diviner to do on a boring Saturday night? Mar 4, 2007
chained_bear Heavens.
Someone ought to consider making a list of "Specific Fortune-Telling" words. How bizarre! Mar 4, 2007
trivet divination using shoulder blades Feb 25, 2007