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RHABDOMANCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rhabdomancy mean?
• RHABDOMANCY (noun)
The noun RHABDOMANCY has 1 sense:
1. searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
Familiarity information: RHABDOMANCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("rhabdomancy" is a kind of...):
divination; foretelling; fortune telling; soothsaying (the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means)
Derivation:
rhabdomancer (someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water)
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