Crossword-Solution: BIBLIOMANCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bibliomancy | n. | A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events. |
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| sortes-Homericae | 1 answer |
| sortes-Virgilianae | 1 answer |
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Sentences with BIBLIOMANCY (4)
Outside his work his tastes lay in the direction of botany and bibliomancy, which latter, according to the dictionary, is "Divination performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard." He also indulged in good works and was President of the Society for the Preservation of the Spiritual Welfare of the Deputy Harbour Masters at our English Seaports.
Among modes of divination were: _axinomancy_, by axes; _belomancy_, by arrows; _bibliomancy_, by the Bible; _oneiromancy_, by dreams; _pyromancy_, by fire; _hydromancy_, by water; _coscinomancy_, by observing the results of the turning of a sieve hung on a thread.
Baron Martin, reference was made to “the science of Bibliomancy,” as practised by a “cunning woman” in the neighbourhood of Wells-next-the-Sea.
Bibliomancy, or divination by the Bible, had become so common in the fifth century, that several councils were obliged expressly to forbid it, as injurious to religion, and savoring of idolatry.