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Definition: BELOMANCY |
BELOMANCYNoun1. A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Belomancy (Greek). Divination by arrows. Labels being attached to a given number of arrows, the archers let them fly, and the advice on the label of the arrow which flies farthest is accepted and acted on. This practice is common with the Arabs. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prediction | Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy;Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy; by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy (or Alectromancy); by fishes, Ophiomancy; by herbs, Botanomancy; by water, Hydromancy; by fountains, Pegomancy; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes, Crithomancy; by meal, Aleuromancy, Alphitomancy; by salt, Halomancy; by dice, Cleromancy; by arrows, Belomancy; by a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy; by a balanced sieve |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "BELOMANCY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | belomantie. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elomancybay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "BELOMANCY" (pronounced 'Bel"o*man`cy'): Aeromancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Arithmancy, Astragalomancy, Austromancy, Axinomancy, Bibliomancy, Botanomancy, Capnomancy, Cartomancy, Catoptromancy, Ceromancy, Chaomancy, Chartomancy, Cleromancy, Coscinomancy, Crystallomancy, 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) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-m-n-o-y" | |
-1 letter: lambency. | |
-2 letters: balcony, baloney, benomyl, cembalo. | |
-3 letters: baymen, beacon, becalm, bemoan, byname, cabmen, comely, cymbal, emboly, laymen, lemony, meanly, namely, yeoman. | |
-4 letters: alone, amble, amole, anole, anomy, bacon, balmy, banco, beamy, beano, belay, blame, boney, boyla, cable, camel, cameo, canoe, celom, clean, clomb, clone, coaly, coble, comae, comal, combe, coney, cyano, cymae, cymol, ebony. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-m-n-o-y" | |
+2 letters: commendably, flamboyance. | |
+3 letters: flamboyances. | |
+4 letters: commensurably, embryonically, flamboyancies. | |
+5 letters: compensability. | |
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