CRYSTALLOMANCY

  

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CRYSTALLOMANCY

Definition: CRYSTALLOMANCY

CRYSTALLOMANCY

Noun

1. Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: CRYSTALLOMANCY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Prediction

Divination by oracles, Theomancy; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts, Psychomancy; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy; by winds, Austromancy; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy), Hieromancy, Hieroscopy; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy; by the entrails of a human sacrifice,

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Crystallomancy

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Crystallomancy (also known as catoptromancy) is a method of divination involving gazing into a a reflective object. Shiny stones, mirrors and crystal balls are commonly used. Practitioners of crystallomancy can allegedly see the future by doing this.

The witch in Snow White who asks her mirror “Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?” can be said to be practicing crystallomancy.

See also: Scrying, Raymond Moody

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crystallomancy."

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Rhyming with "CRYSTALLOMANCY"

Words rhyming with "CRYSTALLOMANCY" (pronounced 'Crys"tal*lo*man`cy'): Aeromancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Arithmancy, Astragalomancy, Austromancy, Axinomancy, Belomancy, Bibliomancy, Botanomancy, Capnomancy, Cartomancy, Catoptromancy, Ceromancy, Chaomancy, Chartomancy, Cleromancy, Coscinomancy, Dactyliomancy, Dactylomancy, Daphnomancy, Geomancy, Hieromancy, Homocercy, hydromancy, Lecanomancy, lithomancy, -mancy, Meteoromancy, Metopomancy, Myomancy, Necromancy, Oneiromancy, onomancy, Onomomancy, Onychomancy, Ophiomancy, Ornithomancy, Pedomancy, Pegomancy, Psychomancy, Pyromancy, Rabdomancy, Rhapsodomancy, Sciomancy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CRYSTALLOMANCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-l-l-m-n-o-r-s-t-y-y"

-4 letters: cycloramas.

-5 letters: cataclysm, clamantly, cyclorama, mayoralty.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CRYSTALLOMANCY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 52 59 53 54 41 4C 4C 4F 4D 41 4E 43 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-.    -.--.    ...    -    .-    .-..    .-..    ---    --    .-    -.    -.-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01010010 01011001 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001100 01001100 01001111 01001101 01000001 01001110 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#82 &#89 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#79 &#77 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0052 0059 0053 0054 0041 004C 004C 004F 004D 0041 004E 0043 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3752595354354646494735483759

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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