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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A species of divination performed by burning straws, etc., upon red-hot iron, and observing their bendings, figures, sparkling, and burning.

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  1. n. divination by studying the burning of straws on heated iron

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning.

Etymologies

  1. Ancient Greek iron + -mancy. (Wiktionary)

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  • “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.”

    Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2

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  • qroqqa The Latin sidus, sider- is "star", but the Greek sidêr- is "iron". The genuinely Greek-derived word for divination by the stars would be 'astromancy'. Aug 9, 2010

  • john Stars, or straws? Aug 9, 2010

  • mercy divination by the stars Jul 13, 2008

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