Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Divination by means of cheese.
Examples
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“Aida Marshall | May 13, 2008 at 6: 39 pm plerotic coderive tyromancy manganetic stagworm antiusurious pterodactylian astounding”
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“By tyromancy, whereof we make some proof in a great Brehemont cheese which I here keep by me.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“In a previous post I introduced you to the idea of divination by cheese (tyromancy) - and now I bring to you the alternative idea of aleuromancy (or alphitomancy) - or divination by bread (or a bread-like material).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tyromancy’.
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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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from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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cheese
everything cheese,expressions like
stiff cheddar,turophile's heaven
a work in progresscheddar, cheddared, cheddaring, cheedam, cheese straw, cheesed off, cheesed, cheesie, cheeseparing, cheese tree, cheesewood, cheesier and 352 more...
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englishable, toesmithing, zwimmer, woad, wherefore, bobance, pediluvium, ruff, anteloquy, februation, lungeous, chalm and 357 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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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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richardr's Words
marmoreal, osteology, tyromancy, metalepsis, idioglossia, tapinosis, epicaricacy, carromancy, rogation, senex, aulic, gemütlichkeit and 279 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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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Divine!
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catoptromancy, axinomancy, brontomancy, dririmancy, spatulamancy, scapulomancy, armomancy, spatilomancy, bibliomancy, stichomancy, sortilege, graptomancy and 25 more...
Tweets
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seanahan Hmm, I thought this one would have something to do with the word tyro. May 19, 2008
whichbe Also known as tiromancy. May 16, 2008
missanthropist Divination by the coagulation of cheese!
John Gaule's Magicall Astrologicall Diviner, 1652 May 16, 2008