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GEOMANCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does geomancy mean?
• GEOMANCY (noun)
The noun GEOMANCY has 1 sense:
1. divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another)
Familiarity information: GEOMANCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("geomancy" is a kind of...):
divination; foretelling; fortune telling; soothsaying (the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means)
Derivation:
geomancer (one who practices geomancy)
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