Chaomancy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chaomancy is a noun meaning Divination by aerial visions, a form of aeromancy.
Meaning
Divination by aerial visions, a form of aeromancy.
Example Sentences
1908 Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dict. i. chaomancy...Fortune-telling by aerial apparitions.
1650 French tr. Paracelsus Nine Books Of the Nature of Things (1674) ix. Chaomancy shews its Signs by the Stars of the Air and Wind, by the discolouring, destroying of all tender and subtil things […] If the Stars of Chaomancy are moved, Spirits fall from the superiour Air, and Voices and Answers were often heard […] There are seen Hobgoblins, Household Gods, airy Spirits, and Woodmen, &c. also a heavenly Dew and Manna falls upon Trees and Herbs.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include aeromancy, austromancy, sciomancy, abacomancy, psychomancy, anemoscopy.
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