spatulamancyn.

Etymology: < medieval or modern Latin spatulamancia, < spatula shoulder blade.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: spatulaˈmancy.

Divination by means of the shoulder blade of an animal. (Cf. spade-bone n. and speal-bone n.) In quot. 1652 there is apparently some error or omission, as the explanation would more properly apply to *spatilomancy, < Greek σπατίλη excrement, parings of leather.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination from bones > [noun] > by a shoulder-blade > of an animal

spatulamancy1652

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 166 Spatalamancy, [divining] by skins, bones, excrements.

1720 Hist. Life & Adventures D. Campbell (1841) 241 If it be by consulting the shoulder-bones of any beast, it goes by the name of spatulamancy.

1887 C. J. Ribton-Turner Vagrants & Vagrancy 78 Spatulamancy.., by reading..the blade bone of a shoulder of mutton well scraped.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	spatulamancy
释义	spatulamancyn. Etymology: < medieval or modern Latin spatulamancia, < spatula shoulder blade.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: spatulaˈmancy. Divination by means of the shoulder blade of an animal. (Cf. spade-bone n. and speal-bone n.) In quot. 1652 there is apparently some error or omission, as the explanation would more properly apply to spatilomancy, < Greek σπατίλη* excrement, parings of leather. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination from bones > [noun] > by a shoulder-blade > of an animal spatulamancy1652 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 166 Spatalamancy, [divining] by skins, bones, excrements. 1720 Hist. Life & Adventures D. Campbell (1841) 241 If it be by consulting the shoulder-bones of any beast, it goes by the name of spatulamancy. 1887 C. J. Ribton-Turner Vagrants & Vagrancy 78 Spatulamancy.., by reading..the blade bone of a shoulder of mutton well scraped. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1652
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