- myomancy
- Foretelling the future using the movement of mice
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myomancy
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Myomancy — was a method of theriomantic divination by rats or mice, which may be alluded to in Isaiah 66:17. Their particular cries or some marked devastation committed by them was taken for a prognostication of evil. Ælain relates that Fabius Maximus… … Wikipedia
Myomancy — My o*man cy, n. [Gr. my^s mouse + mancy.] Divination by the movements of mice. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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myomancy — divination from the movements of mice Divination and Fortune Telling … Phrontistery dictionary
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