onychomancyn.

Brit.

/ˈɒnᵻkə(ʊ)ˌmansi/, U.S.

/ˈɑnəkəˌmænsi/

Forms: 1600s 1800s– onychomancy, 1700s–1800s onycomancy.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin onychomantia; Greek ὄνυχο-, -μαντεία.

Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin onychomantia (1544 in G. Cardano Sapientia) or < its elements ancient Greek ὄνυχο- onycho- comb. form + Hellenistic Greek -μαντεία -mancy comb. form. Compare Spanish onicomancia (1545). Compare earlier onymancy n.

rare before 20th cent.

Divination from the fingernails.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by personal appearance > [noun] > by the fingernails

onymancy1615

onychomancy1652

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 165 Onychomancy, [divining] by the nayles.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Onycomancy, or as some have it, Onymancy, a kind of Divination by means of the Nails of the Fingers.

1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 324 Chiromancers give the name of Onycomancy, likewise, to the inspection of the natural signs in the nails.

1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality & its Survival of Bodily Death 574 The Greeks..[practised] onychomancy, in which a boy's nails covered with soot and oil were turned to the sun, the reflection of whose rays produced images supposed to represent certain things.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xv. 410 We wonder that a credulous age has not made more of onychomancy or nail-divination!

1986 M. Stott Spilling Beans 110 Other well known forms of divination include Tarot and I Ching but more obscure forms are practised, too. These include..onychomancy.

2000 Wall St. Jrnl. 1 Jan. 5/1 People have been making predictions about the year 2000 for centuries. They have employed..such techniques as splanchomancy (reading entrails); onychomancy (interpreting fingernails); [etc.].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	onychomancy
释义	onychomancyn. Brit. /ˈɒnᵻkə(ʊ)ˌmansi/, U.S. /ˈɑnəkəˌmænsi/ Forms: 1600s 1800s– onychomancy, 1700s–1800s onycomancy. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin onychomantia; Greek ὄνυχο-, -μαντεία. Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin onychomantia (1544 in G. Cardano Sapientia) or < its elements ancient Greek ὄνυχο- onycho- comb. form + Hellenistic Greek -μαντεία -mancy comb. form. Compare Spanish onicomancia (1545). Compare earlier onymancy n. rare before 20th cent. Divination from the fingernails. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by personal appearance > [noun] > by the fingernails onymancy1615 onychomancy1652 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 165 Onychomancy, [divining] by the nayles. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Onycomancy, or as some have it, Onymancy, a kind of Divination by means of the Nails of the Fingers. 1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 324 Chiromancers give the name of Onycomancy, likewise, to the inspection of the natural signs in the nails. 1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality & its Survival of Bodily Death 574 The Greeks..[practised] onychomancy, in which a boy's nails covered with soot and oil were turned to the sun, the reflection of whose rays produced images supposed to represent certain things. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xv. 410 We wonder that a credulous age has not made more of onychomancy or nail-divination! 1986 M. Stott Spilling Beans 110 Other well known forms of divination include Tarot and I Ching but more obscure forms are practised, too. These include..onychomancy. 2000 Wall St. Jrnl. 1 Jan. 5/1 People have been making predictions about the year 2000 for centuries. They have employed..such techniques as splanchomancy (reading entrails); onychomancy (interpreting fingernails); [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1652
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