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单词 cleromancy
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cleromancyn.

Etymology: < medieval Latin cleromantia, < Greek κλῆρος lot: see -mancy comb. form. Compare French cléromancie (in Rabelais).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcleromancy.
? Obsolete.
Divination by lots.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > casting of lots, sortilege > [noun]
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1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vii. xxxv. 294 Diuination..by lottes, Cleromancy.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 165 Cleromancy, [divining] by lotts.
1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 334 Cleromancy was practised by throwing black and white beans, little bones or dice, and, perhaps, stones.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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