"pyromancy," if in the entrails of animals sacrificed on the altars of demons, "aruspicy.". From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Not scrying, not psychometry, not pyromancy-no form of divination or clairvoyance that she tried had revealed either Eric or Magnus's location. From Wordnik.com. [Music To My Sorrow]
Not scrying, not psychometry, not pyromancy — no form of divination or clairvoyance that she tried had revealed either Eric or Magnus's location. From Wordnik.com. [Music to My Sorrow]
Have you a mind, quoth Herr Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by pyromancy, by aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his Clouds maketh great estimation, by hydromancy, by lecanomancy, of old in prime request amongst the Assyrians, and thoroughly tried by Hermolaus. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
As for magic, necromancy, pyromancy, geomancy, coscinomancy, and all the other mancies -- there was then a whole literature about them. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Lectures and Essays] Reference
Others include 'geomancy' (seeing into the future by throwing earth on the ground and interpreting the resulting lines and shapes); 'hydromancy' (studying the patterns and movement of water); and 'pyromancy' (studying the shapes and patterns of flames and fires). From Wordnik.com. [Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine] Reference
Have you a mind, quoth Herr Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by pyromancy, by aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his Clouds maketh great estimation, by hydromancy, by lecanomancy, of old in prime request amongst the Assyrians, and thoroughly tried by. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
After looking Panurge in the face and making conclusions by metoposcopy and physiognomy, he casts his horoscope secundum artem, then, taking a branch of tamarisk, a favorite tree from which to get the divining rod, he names some twenty-nine or thirty mantic arts, from pyromancy to necromancy, by which he offers to predict his future. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference
And at one side of the emperor’s table sit many philosophers that be proved for wise men in many diverse sciences, as of astronomy, necromancy, geomancy, pyromancy, hydromancy, of augury and of many other sciences. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
Sabellicus, a second Faustus, the spring and centre of necromantic art, an astrologer, a magician, consummate in chiromancy, and in agromancy, pyromancy and hydromancy inferior to none that ever lived. ". From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Necromancers] Reference
Well-skill'd in pyromancy; one that knew. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
16. pyromancy 16. shoulder blades, usually blotched or cracked by fire. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference
Here a Sacristan once taught magic, judicial astrology, geomancy, hydromancy, pyromancy, acromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Alhambra] Reference
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