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BOTANOMANCY

Definition: BOTANOMANCY

BOTANOMANCY

Noun

1. An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Botanomancy \Bot"a*no*man`cy\, noun. [Botany -mancy: compare to the French expression botanomantie.]. (references)


Specialty Definition: BOTANOMANCY

DomainDefinition

Literature

Botanomancy Divination by leaves. Words were written on leaves which were exposed to the wind. The leaves left contained the response. (See Botany. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: BOTANOMANCY

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Rhyming with "BOTANOMANCY"

Words rhyming with "BOTANOMANCY" (pronounced 'Bot"a*no*man`cy'): Aeromancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Arithmancy, Astragalomancy, Austromancy, Axinomancy, Belomancy, Bibliomancy, 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)

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Anagrams: BOTANOMANCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-m-n-n-o-o-t-y"

-2 letters: noncombat.

-4 letters: amboyna, anatomy, antonym, boatman.

-5 letters: anonym, bantam, banyan, batman, bayamo, bayman, botany, cabman, cannot, canton, canyon, cayman, combat, noncom, tambac, tombac, tomboy, tycoon.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-m-n-n-o-o-t-y"
 

+5 letters: companionability, noncomparability.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BOTANOMANCY


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

42 4F 54 41 4E 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)

01000010 01001111 01010100 01000001 01001110 01001111 01001101 01000001 01001110 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#79 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#79 &#77 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004F 0054 0041 004E 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)

3649543548494735483759

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INDEX

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


  

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