释义 |
anthropomancy|ænˈθrəʊpəʊˌmænsɪ| [f. anthropo- + Gr. µαντεία divination: see -mancy. Cf. mod.Fr. anthropomancie. Cotgr. 1611 has ‘Anthropomantie: Divination by the raising of dead men.’] Pretended divination by the entrails of men.
1618in B. Holyday Technogamia. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 367 Anthropomancy, or predicting by intrailes of men, women, children. 1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxv, Anthropomancy practised by the Roman emperor Heliogabalus. 1731in Bailey; and in mod. Dicts. |