Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Divination by means of barley-meal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by means of barley meal.
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- noun Ancient Greek method of
divination using barley meal. - noun A divination practise used to reveal guilty parties my feeding a person or group barley meal. The innocent, it is said, would feel no effects, but the guilty would feel indigestion. Also known as Cursed Bread.
Etymologies
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Examples
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By alphitomancy, cried up by Theocritus in his Pharmaceutria.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By alphitomancy, cried up by Theocritus in his Pharmaceutria.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By alphitomancy, cried up by Theocritus in his Pharmaceutria.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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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).
The Old Foodie 2009
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Other paths of inquiry have led to the practice of, for example, cleromancy, sciomancy, crystallomancy, alphitomancy, and spodomancy, to name only a few.
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