hydromancy

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Definition of hydromancy

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)Divination by water or other liquid.
    “Hydromancy is the supposed art of divining by water. The Persians, according to Varro, invented it; Pythagoras and Numa Pompilius made use of it; and we still admire the like wonderful prognosticators.”
    “Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.]”
    “Hydromancy, like many other methods of divination, seems to have originated in Babylonia and reached the Greco-Roman world via Egypt, in the first century b.c. or earlier.”

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Etymology

From French hydromancie or Late Latin hydromantia, from Ancient Greek ὑδρομαντεία (hudromanteía); corresponding to hydro- + -mancy.

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