单词 | scatomancy |
释义 | scatomancyn. Divination or diagnosis based on the examination of the fæces. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by body parts or functions > [noun] > by inspection of faeces scatomancy1569 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. lxxxiii. 145 b For this cause Scatomancie, Oromancie, Drymimancie, be called the diuinations or Prognostications of Phisitians, gathered by ordures and vrines. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth xxvi I studied at Montpelier... There learned I Dririmancy, Scatomancy, Pathology [etc.]. 1897 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1569 |
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