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geomancy|ˈdʒiːəʊˌmænsɪ|
Also 4 gemensye, geomesye, 4–6 geomancie, 5 geomantie, 7 -manty.
[a. F. géomancie, ad. L. geōmantīa, a. late Gr. *γεωµαντεία, f. γεω-, comb. form of γῆ earth + µαντεία divination.]
The art of divination by means of signs derived from the earth, as by the figure assumed by a handful of earth thrown down upon some surface (see also quot. 1569). Hence, usually, divination by means of lines or figures formed by jotting down on paper a number of dots at random.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. xi. 153 Astronomye is hard thing..Gemetrie and gemensye [B. geomesye] is gynful of speche. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋531 What seye we of hem that bileeuen in diuynailes as..by Geomancie [etc.]. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxv. 115 Sum of geomancy, sum of pyromancy, sum of ydromancy. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. vi. in Ashm. (1652) 100 Trust not in Geomantie that superstitious Arte. 1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 51 b, There is also an other kind of Geomancie..the which doth diuine by certaine coniectures taken of similitudes of the crakinge of the Earthe [etc.]. 1591Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 1 Geomancie is a Science and Art which consisteth of points, prickes, and lines, made in steade of the foure Elements. 1622J. Taylor (Water P.) Water Cormor. Wks. (1630) iii. 12/2 By Water he knowes much in Hidromanty And by the Earth hee's skilled in Geomanty. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1775) II. 22 All the renowned authors..in alchemy, astrology, magic, palmistry, geomancy, and other branches of the occult philosophy. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1859) 177 Certain colleges in old times, where judicial astrology, geomancy, necromancy, and other forbidden and magical sciences were taught. 1878J. H. Gray China I. i. 10 The houses are built according to the principles of geomancy. |