onomatechny

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noun

prognostication by the letters of a name; onomancy

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Meanings

nounonomatechny (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableprognostication by the letters of a name; onomancy

    To these questions it is scarcely necessary to say that all the researches of onomatechny cannot supply even the beginning of an answer

    1904, The International Quarterly
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    ...believing that there was a mystical connection between things and their names. Plato was a firm believer in this form of augury or onomatechy

    1906, A Key to Puzzledom ; Or, Complete Handbook of the Enigmatic Art

    Finally, by combining onomatechny, history and imagination, he reconstructed what he assumed to be the original North British version of the Tristan fable

    1971, Rosemary Picozzi, A History of Tristan Scholarship

Origin

Ancient Greek

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