oneiromancyn.

1650 N. Homes Dæmonol. & Theol. (title page) Divination mediate, namely, by Auspicie, Augurie, Pullarie, Aruspicie, Sortilegie, Necromancie, Oneiromancie, Astrologie.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 165 Oniromancy, [divining] by dreams.

1656 in J. Mede Diatribæ Pars IV Author's Life sig. Zz6^v From these he proceeded unto those mysterious sciences which made the ancient Chaldæans and Egyptians so famous,..Hieroglyphics, and Oneiromancy, or interpretation of dreames.

1709 J. Trenchard Nat. Hist. Superstition 10 To these Weaknesses of our own, and Frauds of others, we owe..the numerous ways of Divination, viz. Oniromancy, Sideromancy, [etc.].

1765 tr. Voltaire Philos. Dict. 136 This and many other accounts prove, that oneiromancy, or the intrepretation [sic] of dreams, was not prohibited by the Jewish institutes.

1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth III. i. 6 She was crying; for she had had a dream about green rushes,..which, by some queer process of oneiromancy, she interpreted to mean the death of a child.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 108 Oneiromancy..is not unknown to the lower races.

1905 L. Thorndike Place of Magic in Intellect. Hist. Europe i. 20 Arnald of Villanova..believed in astrological medicine, wrote on oneiromancy and interpreted dreams.

1935 J. S. Lincoln Dream in Primitive Cultures i. 3 At Nineveh was a collection of books on oneiromancy or dream interpretation.

1999 D. F. Wallace Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 213 BC programming executives tending to place great importance on oneiromancy.