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geomantic, a. and n.|dʒiːəʊˈmæntɪk|
Also 7 geomantique, -mantick.
[ad. med.L. geōmantic-us, f. geōmantīa geomancy. Cf. F. géomantique.]
A. adj. Belonging to geomancy.
c1590Greene Fr. Bacon ix. 50 Those geomantic spirits, That Hermes calleth terræ filii. 1608Day Law Trickes iv. ii. (1881) 64 The pretious soule Of Geomantique spells and Characters. 1700Dryden Palamon & A. 1224 Two geomantick figures were display'd Above his head, a warriour and a maid. 1816Scott Antiq. xxiii, You have used neither..magic mirror, nor geomantic figure. 1855Smedley Occult Sciences 314 The geomantic figures obtained by inspecting the chance lines or dots. 1892Times (weekly ed.) 7 Oct. 6/4 The Chinese..think..that the geomantic influences are affected injuriously to them.
†B. n. A geomancer. Obs.
1642Rogers Naaman 591 To them that whisper out of the earth (Geomantics). 1652Gaule Magastrom. xxvi, The pointing Geomantick will cast unhappy figures, and project for me a prison and sorrow. |