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Webster 1913 Edition
Aleuromancy
A-leu′ro-manˊcy
,Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] wheaten flour +
-mancy
: cf. F. aleuromancie
.] Divination by means of flour.
Encyc. Brit.
Webster 1828 Edition
Aleuromancy
ALEUROM'ANCY
,Noun.
A kind of divination by meal, used by the ancients.
Definition 2024
aleuromancy
aleuromancy
English
Noun
aleuromancy (uncountable)
- divination using flour or flour-related products such as dough or cakes and fortune cookies
Translations
divination using flour
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References
- "By Alentomancy, mixing the Flower of Wheat with Oatmeal." -- Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv, Urquhart tr. Rabelais, 1660
- "Messages, enclosed in balls of dough, become prophetic of the future. This method, known as aleuromancy, is still in use among the Chinese." -- Treasury of Witchcraft xii, H.E. Wedeck, 1961