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ICHTHYOMANCY

Definition: ICHTHYOMANCY

ICHTHYOMANCY

Noun

1. Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Ichthyomancy \Ich"thy*o*man`cy\, noun. [from Greek expression fish -mancy: compare to the French expression ichthyomancie.]. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: ICHTHYOMANCY

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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Anagrams: ICHTHYOMANCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-4 letters: chthonic, cyanotic, hyacinth.

-5 letters: chaotic, chicano, chinchy, comatic, manihot, mycotic, tachyon.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ICHTHYOMANCY


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

49 43 48 54 48 59 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)

01001001 01000011 01001000 01010100 01001000 01011001 01001111 01001101 01000001 01001110 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

I C H T H Y O M A N C Y

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0043 0048 0054 0048 0059 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)

433742544259494735483759

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INDEX

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


  

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