Theomancy

Theomancy
Theomancy The"o*man`cy, n. [Gr. ? a god + -mancy: cf. F. th['e]omancie, Gr. ? a spirit of prophecy,.] A kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles among heathen nations. [1913 Webster]

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