Meanings
alternative archeomancy
- rareuncountableDivination using sacred relics.
Predicting the Future State of the World Using Archaeological Data: An Exercise in Archaeomancy
2004 May 28, Peter N. Peregrine, “Predicting the Future State of the World Using Archaeological Data: An Exercise in Archaeomancy”, in Cross-Cultural Research, volume 38, number 2, title, page 1331 more example
He thinks that in ancient Camanac if skills like yours were common they'd have had names for them– archaeomancy, chronomancy, kineomancy. That sort of thing.
2014, C. L. Holland, Conversations with Dragons, page 8
Origin
- Ancient Greekἀρχαῖος“ancient”
- Englisharchaeomancy
From archaeo- + -mancy, from Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “ancient”) and μαντεία (manteía, “prophecy”).
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