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HYDROMANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydromancy mean? 

HYDROMANCY (noun)
  The noun HYDROMANCY has 1 sense:

1. divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)play

  Familiarity information: HYDROMANCY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HYDROMANCY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("hydromancy" is a kind of...):

divination; foretelling; fortune telling; soothsaying (the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means)

Derivation:

hydromancer (one who practices hydromancy)


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