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Webster 1913 Edition

onomancy

on′o-manˊcy

,

Noun.

[Gr.

ὄνομα

name +

-mancy

. Cf.

.]

Divination by the letters of a name; nomancy.

[R.]

Camden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Onomancy

ON'OMANCY

,

Noun.

[Gr. name, and divination.] Divination by the letters of a name.

Destinies were superstitiously, by onomancy, deciphered out of names.