Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tephromancy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
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- noun
Divination by theashes of analtar on which avictim has beensacrificed .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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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.
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