| 单词 | botanomancy | 
| 释义 | botanomancyn. Now chiefly historical.   Divination or fortune-telling using plants or their leaves, petals, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > 			[noun]		 > by plants botanomancy1610 botanology1656 daphnomancy1656 1610    J. Healey tr.  J. L. Vives in  tr.  St. Augustine Citie of God  vii. xxxv. 294  				Diuination..by Hearbes, Botinomancy [L. botanomantia]. 1640    E. Chilmead tr.  J. Ferrand Ερωτομανια 176  				Botanomancy [Fr. la Botanomantie]..is done by the noise or crackling that knee holme, box, or bay leaues make when they are crushed betwixt one's hands or cast into the fire. 1693    T. Urquhart  & P. A. Motteux tr.  F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxv. 209  				To have the truth of the matter..disclosed unto you by..Botonomancy [Fr. Botanomantie]. 1709    J. Trenchard Nat. Hist. Superstition 10  				The numerous ways of Divination, viz. Oniromancy, Sideromancy, Tephranomancy, Botonomancy [etc]. 1859    Ladies' Compan. 15 225/1  				‘He loves me—he loves me not—he loves me!’ Very pretty is the scene where Margaret consults the fates by such botanomancy. Leaf after leaf of the flower falls. 1931    Folk-lore 42 474  				The eighth chapter is given to Botanomancy, that is the foretelling of the future by means of plants and drugs. 2008    N. Wimmer tr.  R. Bolaño 2666 		(2009)	  iv. 428  				Then came cleromantic botanomancy, subdivided into favomancy, practiced with several white beans and a black bean, as well as the disciplines of rhabdomancy and belomancy, in which wooden rods were used. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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