Definition of Hydromancy

1. Noun. Divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides).

Generic synonyms: Divination, Foretelling, Fortune Telling, Soothsaying
Derivative terms: Hydromancer

Definition of Hydromancy

1. n. Divination by means of water, -- practiced by the ancients.

Definition of Hydromancy

1. Noun. Divination by water or other liquid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hydromancy

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Medical Definition of Hydromancy

1. Divination by means of water, practiced by the ancients. Origin: Hydro-, 1 + -mancy: cf. F. Hydromancie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydromancy

hydrolyzes
hydrolyzing
hydrolyzing enzymes
hydroma
hydromagnesiation
hydromagnesiations
hydromagnesite
hydromagnesites
hydromagnetic
hydromagnetically
hydromagnetics
hydromancer
hydromancers
hydromancie
hydromancies
hydromancy (current term)
hydromania
hydromanias
hydromantic
hydromantie
hydromanty
hydrombobomkulite
hydromechanical
hydromechanically
hydromechanics
hydromedusa
hydromedusae
hydromel

Literary usage of Hydromancy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries by Charles William Heckethorn (1875)
"Cagliostro's hydromancy.—But beside masonic delusions, Cagliostro made use of the then little understood wonders of magnetism to attract adherents; ..."

2. Three Books of Occult Philosophy Or Magic by Willis F. Whitehead (1898)
"MOREOVER, the Elements themselves teach us fatal events; whence those four famous kinds of divinations, Geomancy, hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, ..."

3. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1899)
"For Numa himself also, to whom no prophet of God, no holy angel was sent, was driven to have recourse to hydromancy, that he might see the images of the ..."

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