Meanings
- uncountableDivination by examining the soles of the feet.
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May 13, 1975, Norman Mailer, letter to William f. Buckley, Jr. Needless to say, “midden,” if we are to translate, is the stuff through which one is trying to walk in that footless stocking while the editors of National Review are failing to bite the bullet and forsake all squalid pegomancy for pedomancy.
Synonyms: podomancy
Synonyms & antonyms
nounDivination by examining the soles of the feet.
Origin
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pedomancy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pedomancy
“pedomancy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pedomancy. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pedomancy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pedomancy.
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