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Divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)
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hydromancy
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Hydromancy \Hy"dro*man`cy\, n. [Hydro-, 1 + -mancy: cf. F. hydromancie.] Divination by means of water, -- practiced by the ancients.
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n. Divination by water or other liquid.
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n. divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)
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Hydromancy ( Ancient Greek ὑδρομαντεία, water-divination , from ὕδωρ, water , and μαντεία, devination ) is a method of divination by means of water , including the color, ebb and flow, or ripples produced by pebbles dropped in a pool. The Jesuit M. A. Del ...
Usage examples of hydromancy.
It was by that hydromancy, then, that that over-curious Roman king learned both the sacred rites which were to be written in the books of the priests, and also the causes of those rites,-which latter, however, he was unwilling that any one besides himself should know.