alphitomancy
/al-fit-uh-man-see/US // ælˈfɪt əˌmæn si //
炼金术士,炼金术,炼丹术,炼金术师
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the use of barley meal as a means of divination.
Examples
The expression which I should have employed was alphitomancy, a divination "by meal, flower, or branne."
By alphitomancy, cried up by Theocritus in his Pharmaceutria.
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