单词 | scapulimancy |
释义 | scapulimancyn. Divination by means of the cracks in a shoulder blade put into the fire. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination from bones > [noun] > by a shoulder-blade > cracked by fire scapulimancy1871 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 112 Divination by a shoulder-blade, technically called scapulimancy or omoplatoscopy. 1911 J. Hastings Encycl. Relig. IV. 817/1 Scapulomancy is mentioned by Jāḥiẓ together with palmistry and another mode of augury.., viz. divination by the gnawing of mice. 1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory xi. 184 Speck and Cooper have traced scapulimancy from northern Europe through Asia to Eastern North America. 1961 G. Clark World Prehist. viii. 199 It will be recalled that the practice of scapulomancy..can be traced back to the ‘Neolithic’ Lung-shan culture. 1973 T. R. Tregear Chinese i. 19 The bones used in their scapulimancy were incised by markings which are the earliest form of Chinese writing. Derivatives scapuliˈmantic adj. relating to scapulimancy. ΚΠ c1904 Encycl. Dict. Suppl. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1871 |
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