10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OENOMANCY»
Discover the use of
oenomancy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
oenomancy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
An ancient technique, oinomancy was performed by a priestess known as a Bacchante, and protected by Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. Oinomancy is still practiced today, but is rare in the United States.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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The Grandiloquent Dictionary - Tenth Anniversary Edition
... assessing someone's charm odontalgia - A tooth ache odontomancy -
Divination using teeth odontophobia - The fear of teeth odynophobia - A fear of
pain oenomancy - Divination by wine oenophlygia - The state of being drunk
oenophobia ...
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Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of ...
... divination by interpretating the eyes of certain human subjects. odontomancy,
divination by interpreting aches and pains of the teeth or by other types of teeth
examinations. oenomancy, divination by observing the colors and other features
of ...
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An English-Welsh pronouncing dictionary: with an analysis of ...
... J ol, perthynol i chwydd gwyn [iad ; ysmig Oeiliad, il'-iad, s. gwinc, gwing,
amrant- Oenomancy, ï-nom'-an-si, s. gwinarmes; dewiniaeth neu armes gwin
Oeuopolist, i-nop'-o-list, s. gwinwerth- ydd, gwinfarsiandwr Oesophageal, ï-soff-ë'
-jl-al, ...
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Together with Death's Duell
wax into water, Ceromancy†; by currents, Bletonism; by the color and
peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy†. 512.Omen -- N. omen, portent, presage,
prognostic, augury, auspice; sign &c (indication) 550; harbinger &c (precursor) 64
; yule candle†.
John Donne, William Henry Draper, Izaak Walton, 1926
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Sacred Places: How the Living Earth Seeks Our Friendship
... lithomancy (reading stones); moleosophy (examining moles on the body);
oenomancy (watching the appearance of wine poured in libation); ophiomancy (
the behavior of snakes); spedomancy (studying ashes); uremancy (interpreting
urine) ...
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He Do the Time Police in Different Voices
"Once I even came to this very public house and attempted both oenomancy -
using libations of wine - and gyromancy, being divination performed by walking
in a circle until dizziness supervenes. And I want you to know that the
conclusions ...
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The Demon Dictionary Volume One: Know Your Enemy. Learn His ...
... we cannot seek communication with them. necyomancy Divination by
examining the nervous system of a corpse. nephelomancy Fortune-telling by
using the clouds as divinatory signs. oenomancy Divination by interpreting the
appearance ...
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
See OCULAR, para 3. oenology,oenomancy. See the element oeno; for
oenology cf VINE, para 2. oesophagus. See the element esophago. oestrous,
oestrual,oestrus. See IRASCIBLE, para2. of and off(adv,hence adj—whence n—
andprep).
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A Witch's Craft Volume 1: Dictionary for a Witch's Grimoire
Oenomancy: (OH-na-MAN-see) Divination by studying the appearance of wine.
Offering: This is a presentation made to the God, Goddess or other deity
representing a symbolic sacrifice or act of religious worship. The offering may be
herbs, ...
