📚 noun • entry_id 24667
geomancy
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geomancia
A method of divination using earth or the ground, such as interpreting markings on the ground or how handfuls of dirt land when tossed.
1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. Hard by here, in the Brown-wheat-Island, dwelleth Her Trippa; you know how by the Arts of Astrology, Geomancy, Chiromanc…
The Arabian Geomancy, said to have been first practised by Almadul, was more recondite, being founded on the effects of motion under the crust of the earth, the chinks thus produce…
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