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Webster 1913 Edition


Pedomancy

Ped′o-manˊcy

,
Noun.
[
Pedi-
+
-mancy
.]
Divination by examining the soles of the feet.

Definition 2024


pedomancy

pedomancy

English

Noun

pedomancy (uncountable)

  1. divination by examining the soles of the feet
    • Norman Mailer
      Needless to say, “midden,” if we are to translate, is the stuff through which one is trying to walk in that footless stocking while the editors of National Review are failing to bite the bullet and forsake all squalid pegomancy for pedomancy.