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aleuromancy rare.|əˈljʊərəʊˌmænsɪ|
[a. Fr. aleuromancie, ult. f. Gr. ἄλευρον flour + µαντεία divination; the compound ἀλευροµαντεῖον already existed in Gr.]
An ancient kind of divination performed by means of meal or flour.
1656Blount Glossogr., Aleuromancy, divination by barley meal mixed with wheat. 1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxv. Disclosed unto you..by aleuromancy, mixing the flour of wheat with oatmeal. 1775in Ash; and in mod. Dicts. |