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单词 onymancy
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onymancyn.

Brit. /ˈɒnᵻmansi/, U.S. /ˈɑnəˌmænsi/
Forms: 1600s onimancy, 1600s onymancie, 1600s–1700s 1900s– onymancy.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French onymantie.
Etymology: < Middle French onymantie (1546 in Rabelais), with elision of the second syllable < post-classical Latin onychomantia onychomancy n.
Now rare and archaic.
= onychomancy n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by personal appearance > [noun] > by the fingernails
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1615 S. Purchas Pilgrimage IV. v. 310 Onymancie, with Oile and Soote daubed on the Naile of an vndefiled child, and held vp against the Sunne.
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 69 Onimancy..is commonly called the science of the nayls.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxv. 208 By Onymancy; for that we have Oyl and Wax.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Onycomancy, or as some have it, Onymancy, a kind of Divination by means of the Nails of the Fingers.
1955 J. M. Cohen tr. F. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel xxv. 358 ‘Would you like a fuller knowledge of the truth,’asked Herr Trippa, ‘by pyromancy, by aeromancy..By onymancy?’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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