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NOMANCY

Definition: NOMANCY

NOMANCY

Noun

1. The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Nomancy \No"man*cy\, noun. [Compare to the French expression nomancie, nomance, abbrev. from onomancie. See Onomancy.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Synonyms within Context: NOMANCY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Prediction

Coscinomancy; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy; by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy; by precious stones, Lithomancy; by pebbles, Pessomancy; by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy; by mirrors, Catoptromancy; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy; by dreams, Oneiromancy; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy; by finger rings, Dactylomancy; by numbers, Arithmancy; by drawing lots, Sortilege; by passages in books, Stichomancy; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy, Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy; by currents, Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: NOMANCY

Etymologies containing "NOMANCY": onomancy. (references)

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Rhyming with "NOMANCY"

Words rhyming with "NOMANCY" (pronounced 'No"man*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: NOMANCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: anonym, canyon.

-2 letters: ancon, annoy, anomy, canny, canon, cyano, macon, nancy.

-3 letters: anon, coma, conn, cony, cyan, cyma, mano, many, mayo, moan, mony, myna, noma, nona.

-4 letters: any, cam, can, cay, con, coy, mac, man, may, moa, moc, mon, nam, nan, nay, nom, oca, yam, yom, yon.

-5 letters: am, an, ay, ma, mo, my, na.

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

+2 letters: antonymic.

 

+3 letters: companying, countryman, daunomycin, hemocyanin, necromancy, sanctimony.

 

+4 letters: actinomycin, daunomycins, hemocyanins, nonmystical, oneiromancy, synonymical.

 

+5 letters: accompanying, actinomycins, asynchronism, commandingly, companionway, condemnatory, countrywoman, inconsumably, intercompany, intracompany, mnemonically, monosynaptic, nonenzymatic, nymphomaniac, oleandomycin, pancreozymin, predominancy.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NOMANCY


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

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)

01001110 01001111 01001101 01000001 01001110 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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)

48494735483759

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INDEX

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


  

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