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HIEROSCOPY

Definition: HIEROSCOPY

HIEROSCOPY

Noun

1. Divination by inspection of entrails of victims offered in sacrifice.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Hieroscopy \Hi`er*os"co*py\, noun. [Greek expression divination; "iero`s sacred to view.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Synonyms within Context: HIEROSCOPY

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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Rhyming with "HIEROSCOPY"

Words rhyming with "HIEROSCOPY" (pronounced 'Hi`er*os"co*py'): Abdominoscopy, AEolotropy, Aeroscopy, Anthroposcopy, Antitypy, Apanthropy, Aphilanthropy, Astroscopy, Auriscopy, Autotypy, balneotherapy, Bumblepuppy, Cerebroscopy, Chappy, Chirrupy, Choppy, Concupy, Courtepy, Cranioscopy, Cuppy, Cynanthropy, Daguerreotypy, Deuteroscopy, Ectopy, Electro-bioscopy, Electrotypy, Emmetropy, Endoscopy, Episcopy, Floppy, fluoroscopy, Fool-happy, Galvanoscopy, gastroscopy, Geloscopy, Geoscopy, Happy, harpy, Heliotypy, Hemitropy, Hepatoscopy, Homotypy, horoscopy, hydrotherapy, Ichnoscopy, isotropy, Knappy, Laryngoscopy, Lithotypy, Loppy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HIEROSCOPY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-o-o-p-r-s-y"

-2 letters: choosier, isochore.

-3 letters: ceriphs, chooser, choosey, ciphers, coheirs, coopers, coopery, copiers, cyphers, heroics, hoopers, hosiery, hospice, isochor, pooches, poorish, porches, scooper, soroche, spheric, spicery.

-4 letters: ceriph, chiros, chirps, chirpy, choirs, choose, choosy, chores, cipher, coheir, cooers, cooeys, cooper, copers, copier, copies, corpse, cosher, cosier, coyish, cripes, crispy, cypher, cypres, ephori, ephors, epochs, heroic.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-o-o-p-r-s-y"
 

+2 letters: hyperostotic, polychromies.

 

+3 letters: hypochlorites, policyholders.

 

+4 letters: hyperconscious, myrmecophilous, photochemistry, psychoneurosis, psychoneurotic.

 

+5 letters: geostrophically, hypochondriases, ionospherically, psychohistories, psychoneurotics.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HIEROSCOPY


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

48 49 45 52 4F 53 43 4F 50 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)

01001000 01001001 01000101 01010010 01001111 01010011 01000011 01001111 01010000 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#73 &#69 &#82 &#79 &#83 &#67 &#79 &#80 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0049 0045 0052 004F 0053 0043 004F 0050 0059

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

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

42433952495337495059

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INDEX

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


  

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