pyromancern.

Brit.

/ˈpʌɪrə(ʊ)ˌmansə/, U.S.

/ˈpaɪroʊˌmænsər/

Forms: late Middle English piromauncer, 1600s–1700s 1900s– pyromancer.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pyromancy n., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < pyromanc- (in pyromancy n.) + -er suffix¹; compare -mancer comb. form. Compare aeromancer n., geomancer n., hydromancer n., and earlier nigromancer n.

Now historical.

A person who practises pyromancy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > [noun] > by fire > one who practises

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c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 96 Þus are callid..Piromauncers þat wirkun bi þe fire.

1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction v. viii. 201 Sathan..employeth some others spiritually to seduce mens shallow imaginations: which agents of his he commissioneth with speciall errands and articles;..some to obserue the flying of fowle, the entrailes of fowle, which we terme Augures; some as Salamanders, to prophesie by fire, which we name Pyromancers.

1705 tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Commonw. of Learning 76 The Pyromancers divn'd by pouring melting Pitch into the Fire, and observing the crackling of the Flame.

1915 E. B. Bax German Culture iv. 117 ‘Good people and worthy citizens of this town,’ he [sc. a 16th-cent. travelling scholar]might say, ‘behold in me the great master..prince of necromancers, astrologer, second mage, chiromancer, agromancer, pyromancer, hydromancer.’

1998 E. A. Lèbano in J. Tusiani tr. L. Pulci Morgante 896 Pyromancers were believed capable of divining the future by observing forms appearing in fire.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pyromancer
释义	pyromancern. Brit. /ˈpʌɪrə(ʊ)ˌmansə/, U.S. /ˈpaɪroʊˌmænsər/ Forms: late Middle English piromauncer, 1600s–1700s 1900s– pyromancer. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pyromancy n., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < pyromanc- (in pyromancy n.) + -er suffix¹; compare -mancer comb. form. Compare aeromancer n., geomancer n., hydromancer n., and earlier nigromancer n. Now historical. A person who practises pyromancy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > [noun] > by fire > one who practises pyromancerc1475 pyromantic1638 c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 96 Þus are callid..Piromauncers þat wirkun bi þe fire. 1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction v. viii. 201 Sathan..employeth some others spiritually to seduce mens shallow imaginations: which agents of his he commissioneth with speciall errands and articles;..some to obserue the flying of fowle, the entrailes of fowle, which we terme Augures; some as Salamanders, to prophesie by fire, which we name Pyromancers. 1705 tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Commonw. of Learning 76 The Pyromancers divn'd by pouring melting Pitch into the Fire, and observing the crackling of the Flame. 1915 E. B. Bax German Culture iv. 117 ‘Good people and worthy citizens of this town,’ he [sc. a 16th-cent. travelling scholar]might say, ‘behold in me the great master..prince of necromancers, astrologer, second mage, chiromancer, agromancer, pyromancer, hydromancer.’ 1998 E. A. Lèbano in J. Tusiani tr. L. Pulci Morgante 896 Pyromancers were believed capable of divining the future by observing forms appearing in fire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1475
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