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CLEROMANCY

Definition: CLEROMANCY

CLEROMANCY

Noun

1. A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: CLEROMANCY

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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Modern Translation: CLEROMANCY

Language Translations for "CLEROMANCY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

cleromantie. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eromancyclay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "CLEROMANCY"

Words rhyming with "CLEROMANCY" (pronounced 'Cler"o*man`cy'): Aeromancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Arithmancy, Astragalomancy, Austromancy, Axinomancy, Belomancy, Bibliomancy, Botanomancy, Capnomancy, Cartomancy, Catoptromancy, Ceromancy, Chaomancy, Chartomancy, 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: CLEROMANCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: amelcorn, claymore, cornmeal, cyclamen, normalcy.

-3 letters: acronym, almoner, almonry, anymore, caloyer, conceal, coracle, corneal, cyclone, larceny, romance.

-4 letters: almner, calmer, calory, cancel, cancer, carcel, carmen, carney, clamor, cloner, coaler, comely, cormel, cornea, cornel, crayon, creamy, cycler, enamor, lancer, laymen, lemony, loaner, macron, marcel, meanly, merlon, moaner, morale, namely, nearly, normal, oracle, recoal, reloan.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-l-m-n-o-r-y"
 

+2 letters: chlorenchyma.

 

+3 letters: chlorenchymas.

 

+4 letters: chlorenchymata, electrodynamic.

 

+5 letters: econometrically, electrodynamics, hydromechanical, necromantically.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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