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