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pyromancy

[ pahy-ruh-man-see ]

noun

  1. divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.


pyromancy

/ ˈ±è²¹Éª°ùəʊˌ³¾Ã¦²Ô²õɪ /

noun

  1. divination by fire or flames
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ±è²â°ù´ÇËŒ³¾²¹²Ô³¦±ð°ù, noun
  • ËŒ±è²â°ù´Çˈ³¾²¹²Ô³Ù¾±³¦, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±è²â۴Ç·³¾²¹²Ôc±ð°ù noun
  • ±è²âr´Ç·³¾²¹²Ôt¾±³¦ adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pyromancy1

1325–75; Middle English piromancie < Medieval Latin ±è²â°ù´Ç³¾²¹²Ô³ÙÄ«²¹ < Greek ±è²â°ù´Ç³¾²¹²Ô³Ù±ðí²¹ divination by fire. See pyro-, -mancy
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Example Sentences

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Astragalomancy and all the different lettered dice seemed fun, but she wasn't interested in pyromancy and playing with fire messages.

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My Knight build has slowly drifted towards some pyromancy and a touch of sorcery.

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The eighth is entituled pyromancy; that is, when it instructs people by forms appearing in the fire.

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A German writer of the fifteenth century takes a less favourable view of what he calls pyromancy, although pyromancy is really divination by fire.

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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. 

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