Hydromancy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hydromancy is a noun meaning Divination by water or other liquid.
Meaning
Divination by water or other liquid.
Example Sentences
Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.]
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.
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.
Word Forms
- hydromancies
- hydromancie
- hydromantie
- hydromanty
Related Words
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