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Alternative spellings
ydromancy
hydromancie
hydromantie
hydromanty
Etymology
From F. hydromancie or Late L. hydromantia, from AGr. *polytonic|�δ�ομαν�εία; corresponding to hydro- + -mancy.
Noun
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- Divination by water or other liquid.
Derived terms
hydromancer
hydromantic
Related terms
hydatoscopy
Translations
trans-top|divination by water or other liquid
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Latin:
*Late Latin: hydromantia
*New Latin: hydromantia
Middle English: hidromancy, idromance, idromancie, ydromance, ydromaunce
Middle French: ydromancye
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Quotations
1533 Cornelius Agrippa De Occult Philosophia
:Hydromantia vaticina præstat per impressiones aqueas, illarumque fluxes at refluxes, excrescentia et depressione, tempestates et colores et similia: ejus junguntur etiam visiones quæ in aquis fiunt.
1797 Encyc. Brit.
:Hydromancy is the supposed art of divining by water. The Persians, according to Varro, invented it; Pythagoras and Numa Pompilius made use of it; and we still admire the like wonderful prognosticators.
1985 G. Luck Arcana Mundi
:Hydromancy, like many other methods of divination, seems to have originated in Babylonia and reached the Greco-Roman world via Egypt, in the first century b.c. or earlier.
References
R:Webster 1913
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