giromancy

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A form of gyromancy — Divination where people walk on a circle of letters until dizzy; the letters they fall on are significant. Similar to Dervishing.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

noungiromancy (plural giromancies)

plural giromancies

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of gyromancy.

    By Giromancy, if thou shouldst turn round Circles, thou mightest assure thy self from me, that they would fall al∣ways on the wrong side

    1694, Rabelais, François, The works of F. Rabelais, M.D., or, The lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel with a large account of the life and works of the author, particularly an explanation of the most difficult passages in them never before publish'd in any language / done out of French by Sir Tho. Urchard, Kt., and others., page 208
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Chicago

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