Definitions for rhabdomancy

rhabdomancy rhab·do·man·cy

Spelling: [rab-duh-man-see]
IPA: /ˈræb dəˌmæn si/

Rhabdomancy is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 794 anagrams from letters in rhabdomancy (aabcdhmnory).

Definitions for rhabdomancy

noun

  1. divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.

Origin of rhabdomancy

1640-50; Late Greek rhabdomanteía; see rhabdo-, -mancy

Examples for rhabdomancy

Sir Thomas Browne also speaks of a 'strange kind of exploration and peculiar way of rhabdomancy' used in mineral discoveries.

rhabdomancy, a species of divination by means of a hazel rod to trace the presence of minerals or metals under ground.

It is not water, but treasures which they profess to find by some hidden kind of rhabdomancy.

Hazel-rods were used to "divine" for water and minerals by professors of an art which received the crack-jaw title of rhabdomancy.

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