uranomancyn.
/ˈjʊərənə(ʊ)ˌmansi/, /ˈjɔːrənə(ʊ)ˌmansi/, U.S. /ˈjʊrənəˌmænsi/ rare. Now historical.
Divination by the stars; astrology.
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judicial astrologyc1560
astromancy1570
uranomancy1658
siderism1843
sideromancy1859
1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 16 All other natural practical Arts, as Geometry, Astronomy, Uranomancy, Geography, Arithmetick, and the like.
2004 J.-M. Bonnet-Bidaud & F. Praderie in S. Whitfield Silk Road 89/2 One can conjecture that it [sc. a star atlas] was used for military and travellers' needs, and probably also for uranomancy as suggested by the cloud divination texts preceding the charts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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