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onomancy|ˈɒnəmænsɪ|
Also in Latin form onomantia.
[Abbreviated form of onomatomancy: = med.L. onomantīa, obs. It. onomantia (Florio), obs. F. onomantie ‘divination by names’ (Cotgr.).]
Divination from names or the letters of a name, as, the number of vowels in a name, the sum of the numerical value of the letters, or the like.
1605Camden Rem. 35 The superstitious kinde of Divination called Onomantia, condemned by the last generall Counsell, by which the Pithagoreans iudged the even number of vowells in names to signifie imperfections in the left sides of men, and the odde number in the right. 1656Blount Glossogr., Onomancie (onomantia), divination by names. 1678Phillips (ed. 4) List Barbarous Words, Onomancy, a Divination by names, or rather a Divination by some observations about an Ass, the first should seem rather to be Onomomancy. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Onomancy, or rather Onomamancy, the art of divining the good or evil fortune which shall befal a man, from the letters of his name. Ibid., In strictness, onomancy should rather signify divination by asses..to signify divination by names, it should be onomatomancy. 1880W. Jones Prec. Stones i. 5 note, The Rabbinical writers describe a system of onomancy,..termed Notaricon, in conjunction with lithomancy.
Hence onoˈmantic, onoˈmantical adjs., of or pertaining to onomancy; practising onomancy.
1605Camden Rem. 35 An Onomanticall or Name-wisard Iew. 1656Blount Glossogr., Onomantical, pertaining unto, or skilful in that kind of Divination by names. 1856Webster, Onomantic. |