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Webster 1913 Edition
Aeromancy
A′ër-o-manˊcy
,Noun.
[
Aëro-
+ -mancy
: cf. F. aéromancie
.] Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.
Webster 1828 Edition
Aeromancy
A'EROMANCY
,Noun.
Divination by means of the air and winds. [Little used.]
Definition 2024
aeromancy
aeromancy
See also: aëromancy
English
Alternative forms
- Early Modern English: aeromancie, æromancy, aëromancy, aeromanty, eromancy, heromancy
- Forms containing "ë" are now obsolete.
Noun
aeromancy (uncountable)
- Divination by use of atmospheric conditions.
- "heromancy" -- OED, 1546
- "If these apparitions are in the Ayre, then it is called Aeromancie." -- Astrologaster, J. Melton, 1620
- "Have you a mind, quoth Her Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by..aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his Clouds maketh great estimation..?" -- Works of Rabelais III, 1951
- "heromancy" -- OED, 1546
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Translations
divination by use of atmospheric conditions
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