单词 | hydromancer |
释义 | † hydromancern. Obsolete. One who practises hydromancy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > [noun] > by water > one who practises hydromancerc1475 hydromantic1638 c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 96 Þus are callid geomanceris, þat werkun bi þe ȝerþ. And idromauncers, þat þus wirkun bi þe watir. 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Hydromancer, one that useth Hydromancy, -tic, divination by water, or raising Spirits in the Water. Hence 1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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