- crithomancy
- Divination by spreading flour or dough over a sacrificed animal
Grandiloquent dictionary. 2006.
crithomancy
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Crithomancy — Crith o*man cy (kr[i^]th [ o]*m[a^]n s[y^]), n. [Gr. kriqai , pl., barley + mancy: cf. F. crithomancie.] A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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