What is "geomantic"

Usage examples of "geomantic".

One never sees geomantic destruction of this magnitude in Averidan anymore, for each house or building there is old.

In my opinion this graveyard is situated very favourably from a geomantic point of view.

Sudden pockets of failure went geomantic, flashed into expression, twisting the moment through the room.

And here was an arcane basement - broad steps and a massive wall into which was set an impressive geomantic gateway.

Dekkeret courteously, although Septach Melayn had already told him that Gavinius was a revolting drunken fool, and the other one, Gavdat, evidently was a fool of a different kind, forever lost in the claptrap of geomantic studies.

Or the cheap little geomantic devices that he had seen for sale in the midnight market of Bombifale, that night when he first had met Maundigand-Klimd, and which the Su-Suheris had scornfully dismissed as fraudulent and worthless.

Charts and works of reference covered his desk, and interspersed among them were all manner of instruments and devices having to do with the geomantic arts.

He heard the Coronal once again puttering among the geomantic devices on his desk even before he stepped through the doorway.

Its acoustics were poor, proper names often came out garbled, a chaotic calendar messed up the order of events but, on the whole, the colored dots did form a geomantic picture of sorts.

Oldenbuck refused to give him any credit, telling him that he came without weapons, and did not use charms, lamen-sigel, talisman, spell-crystal, pentacle, magic-mirror, nor geomantic figure.

Perhaps the Masters of the World knew how to interpret it as a geomantic design, perhaps in its metamorphoses they knew how to read their instructions, their unconfessable mandates.