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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.
[Gr. divination.]
Divination by means of the air and winds. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


aeromancy

aeromancy

See also: aëromancy

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Alternative forms

  • Early Modern English: aeromancie, æromancy, aëromancy, aeromanty, eromancy, heromancy
  • Forms containing "ë" are now obsolete.

Noun

aeromancy (uncountable)

  1. 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

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