单词 | sciomancy |
释义 | sciomancyn. Divination through communication with the spirits of the dead. Also: divination by means of shadows.Often distinguished from necromancy in involving only the spirit, as opposed to the corpse, of a dead person. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination through supernatural forces > [noun] > through shades of the dead sciomancy1728 1560 W. Painter tr. W. Fulke Antiprognosticon sig. A.iiiv Capnomancy and Sciomancie [L. Sciomantiam], whereof the one teacheth to haue vnderstandynge of thynges to come by smoke, the other by shadow. 1648 A. Ross Mystagogvs Poeticvs (ed. 2) xii. 305 This..was but Sciomancie, or a sight of shadowes onely, not Necromancie. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sciomantie,..the part of Necromancy, practised by shadows. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxv. 210 If you be afraid of the Dead,..I will make use of the Faculty of Sciomancy [Fr. Sciomantie]. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Witch who conjured up the Soul of Samuel, to foretel Saul the Event of the Battle he was about to give, did it by Sciomancy. a1878 Spiritual Scientist in Mod. Panarion (1895) 80 The sciomancy of the past bears the same relation to modern psychometry that ancient Magic does to modern Spiritualism. a1879 J. D. Hoppus Riverside Papers (1882) II. 45 One..who was no deep-seer, or ‘sensitive’, no victim of cataleptic craving, or sciomancy. 1947 College Art Jrnl. 7 118 The question is dropped and he hurries on to discover psychomancy and sciomancy in other phases of modern art. 2002 Africa News (Nexis) 15 Apr. Secret societies..sometimes rouse dead people, communicate with them as is done in what is called sciomancy. Derivatives scioˈmantic adj. of or relating to sciomancy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination through supernatural forces > [adjective] thanatomantic1841 sciomantic1859 1859 T. S. Henderson Mem. Rev. E. Henderson vi. 378 The actual not sciomantic appearance of Samuel at Endor. 2008 F. Chappell in G. H. Scithers Cat Tales 172 My first unguided excursion into sciomantic venture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1560 |
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