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lecanomancy|ˈlɛkənəʊmænsɪ|
Also 7 lican-, lecon-.
[ad. Gr. λεκανοµαντεία, f. λεκάνη dish, pan, pot (f. λέκος of the same meaning) + µαντεία divination. Cf. F. leconomantie (Rabelais).]
Divination by the inspection of water in a basin.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 294 Hydromancy..done..in a basin of water, which is called Lecanomancie. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 366 They had also their Lecanomancie, which was observed in a Bason of Water, wherein certaine plates of golde and silver were put with Iewels, marked with their jugling Characters. 1656Blount Glossogr., Licanomancy. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxv. 207 By Hydromancy, by Leconomancy. 1783T. Wilson Archæol. Dict., Lecanomancy.
So † lecanomancer, † lecanomantic Obs.—0, one who practises lecanomancy.
1623Cockeram, Leconomanticke. 1670Blount Glossogr., Lecanomancer, a diviner by water in a bason. |