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HYDROMANCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hydromancy mean?
• HYDROMANCY (noun)
The noun HYDROMANCY has 1 sense:
1. divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)
Familiarity information: HYDROMANCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("hydromancy" is a kind of...):
divination; foretelling; fortune telling; soothsaying (the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means)
Derivation:
hydromancer (one who practices hydromancy)
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