hydromancy

NOUN
  1. divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)
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How To Use hydromancy In A Sentence

  • If these signs appear in some earthly body such as wood, iron or polished stone, it is called "geomancy," if in water "hydromancy," if in the air "aeromancy," if in fire Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • Lecanomancy is a division of hydromancy and uses precious stones dropped into a bowl or liquid and interpreting the patterns, ripples or even sounds created.
  • Have you a mind, quoth Herr Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by pyromancy, by aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his Clouds maketh great estimation, by hydromancy, by lecanomancy, of old in prime request amongst the Assyrians, and thoroughly tried by Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
  • The variations of hydromancy are as prolific as the substance itself.
  • A like use of the suspended ring, indicating the early acquaintance of practitioners in these arts with one of the alleged evidences of the so-called _odylic_ force, is thus described by Peucer among various modes of hydromancy: "A bowl was filled with water, and a ring suspended from the finger was librated in the water; and so, according as the question was propounded, a declaration or confirmation of its truth, or otherwise, was obtained. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
  • He used hydromancy to see the images of the gods in the water.
  • Have you a mind, quoth Herr Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by pyromancy, by aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his Clouds maketh great estimation, by hydromancy, by lecanomancy, of old in prime request amongst the Assyrians, and thoroughly tried by Hermolaus Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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