单词 | gastromancy |
释义 | gastromancyn. Obsolete exc. Historical. Divination by the belly. 1. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vii. xxxv. 294 Hydromancy..done..in a glasse bottle full of water, wherein a Childe must looke, (and this is called, Gastromancy of the glasses belly). 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 366 Gastromancie procured answere by pictures, or representations in glasse-vessels of water, after the due Rites. 2. (See quot. 1652.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by personal appearance > [noun] > by the belly gastromancy1652 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 165 Gastromancy, [divining] by the sound of, or signes upon the belly. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxv. 208 Gastromancy, which kind of ventral Fatiloquency was for a long time together used in Ferrara. a1836 E. Smedley Occult Sci. in Encycl. Metrop. (1855) 323 Gastromancy or divination from the belly, is now generally explained by ventriloquism.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.1610 |
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