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theomancy|ˈθiːəʊmænsɪ|
[ad. Gr. θεοµαντεία spirit of prophecy, f. θεός god + µαντεία divination: see -mancy.]
A kind of divination: see quots.
1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xii. 56 These kinds of foretelling events were accounted Theomancy, or Prophecy. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca iii. xii. 257 Theomancy is distinguished from oracular divination, which was commonly limited to a fixed and stated time, and always to a certain place; whilst the θεοµάντεις were free and unconfined, and able to offer sacrifices, and perform other prophetic rites, at any time, and in any part of the world. 1842Brande Dict. Sc., etc., Theomancy, a name..given to that species of divination which was drawn from the responses of oracles.., or from the predictions of sibyls and others supposed to be immediately inspired by some divinity.
Hence theoˈmantic a., pertaining to theomancy.
1620Middleton & Rowley World Tost at Tennis 258 Strike, by white art, a theomantic power, Magic divine. 1684tr. Agrippa's Van. Arts xlvii. 122 This part..is twofold: Arithmantick..and Theomantick, which searches into the mysteries of the Divine Majesty. |