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pyromancy Now rare.|ˈpaɪərəʊmænsɪ, ˈpɪrəʊ-|
Forms: 4 piromance, -aunce, (perimancie), 5–6 piromancy, (5 -cye, 6 -cie), 5– pyromancy, (5 -cye, 6–7 -cie, 7 -ty).
[a. OF. piromance, pyromancie (14th c. in Godef. Compl.), ad. late L. pyromantīa, a. Gr. πυροµαντεία: see pyro- and -mancy.]
Divination by fire, or by signs derived from fire.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. xi. 158 Nigromancye and perimancie. 1390Gower Conf. III. 45 The craft..That Geomancie cleped is,..And of the flod his Ydromance, And of the fyr the Piromance. c1400[see hydromancy]. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) i. xxxvi. 77/1 Pyromancye, that is wytche⁓crafte done in the fyre. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon ii. 15 Thou art read in Magicks mystery, In Piromancy, to diuine by flames. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Water Cormorant Wks. iii. 12/2 By Fire he hath the skill of Pyromanty. 1855Smedley Occult Sc. 292 Pyromancy, by which conjectures were made from the motions of the sacrificial flame.
So ˈpyromancer, one who divines by fire; pyroˈmantic a., pertaining to or practising pyromancy; † n. = pyromancer.
c1400Apol. Loll. 96 Þus are callid..piromauncers þat wirkun bi þe fire. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon ix. 71 The Pyromanticke Genij. 1608Day Law Trickes iv. ii, Skill in pyromantique rules. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 215 Many Witches, Sorcerers, Inchanters, Hydro and Pyromantiques, and other Diaboliques. |