单词 | crithomancy |
释义 | crithomancyn. Divination by meal strewed over animals sacrificed. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by food and drink > [noun] > by meal or flour > strewed over sacrificed animals crithomancy1652 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 166 Crithomancy, [divining] by grain, or corn. 1884 J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis xv. 165 The use of this sacred meal closely resembles the crithomancy of the ancient Greeks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1652 |
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