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Searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
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rhabdomancy
Word definitions for rhabdomancy in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. divination with a wand or rod; dowsing.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod [syn: dowse , dowsing ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rabdomancy \Rab"do*man`cy\ (r[a^]b"d[-o]*m[a^]n`s[y^]), n. [Gr. "ra`bdos rod + -mancy.] Divination by means of rods or wands. [Written also rhabdomancy .] --Sir T. Browne.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rhabdomancy is a divination technique which involves the use of any rod, wand , staff, stick, arrow, or the like. One method of rhabdomancy was setting a number of staffs on end and observing where they fall, to divine the direction one should travel, or ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "use of divining rod" (especially to discover ores or underground water), from Greek rhabdos "rod, wand; magic wand; fishing rod; spear-shaft; a staff of office; a rod for chastisement; twig, stick" + manteia "divination, oracle" (see -mancy ). Greek ...
Usage examples of rhabdomancy.
The form most often performed by the Department was rhabdomancy, or dowsing, used to find lost property or to find the best place for the site of a house or to locate a hidden spring.
The LXX, Ezechiel xxi, 21, reads , not , and rhabdomancy is mentioned by S.
I refer to such organic forces as are popularly summed up under the words clairvoyance, mesmerism, rhabdomancy, animal magnetism, physical spiritualism.