hydromantie

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A form of hydromancy — Divination by water or other liquid.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounhydromantie (uncountable)
  1. archaicuncountableArchaic form of hydromancy.

    Of this roote [astrology] last spoken of, springs innumerable branches; such as the knowledge of natiuities; the Chiromancie, Geomantie, Hydromantie, Arithmantie, Physiognomie: & a thousand others: which were much practiced, & holden in great reuerence by the Gentiles of olde.

    1597, King James Daemonologie
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