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geomancer|ˈdʒiːəʊˌmænsə(r)| [f. geomanc-y + -er1.] One who practises geomancy.
c1400Apol. Loll. 95 And þus are callid geomanceris, þat werkun bi þe ȝerþ. 1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. viii. 199 Making them to hitte the truth by chance..and so the Astrologer no better then the Chiromancer, or Geomancer. 1646Sir. T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iii. 12 Fortune tellers, Juglers, Geomancers, and the like incantatory impostors..doe daily and professedly delude them. 1814Cary Dante, Purg. xix. 4 The geomancer sees His Greater Fortune up the east ascend. 1878J. H. Gray China I. xii. 297 The selection of a site for a tomb is entrusted to a geomancer. |