10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCIOMANTIC»
Discover the use of
sciomantic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sciomantic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dictionary Of The Social Sciences
2. divination from shadows. sciomantic a. sciosophy supposed knowledge based
on tradition. scopelism 1. throwing enchanted stones on to a neighbour's ground.
2. casting stones on a grave. score l . value' assigned to a test response.
... Madame Delroy is the most inspired The most precise Everything she's told me
about the past was true and everything she Predicted has come true in the time
she said I know a sciomantic but I didn't want him to interview my shadow I know
...
Guillaume Apollinaire, 1980
3
Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction
There was to be a petite fete of celebration for the three of us, marking a success
in my first unguided excursion into sciomantic venture . We hoped also to be
celebrating the return of Mutano's voice, but he had so far kept silent in our
company ...
4
Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of ...
Qualifying words: amphiscian, amphi- scii, antiscians, antiscii, ascian, helioscio-
phyte, sciagram, sciagraph, sciagraphy, scia- lytic, sciamachy, sciametry,
sciascope, scia- scopy, sciatheric, sciomancy, sciomantic, sci- ophile, sciophilous
, ...
5
Modifiers: a unique, compendious collection of more than ...
... skink scintillant, sparkle scintillescent, sparkle scintillose, sparkle scintillous,
sparkle sciolistic, knowledge sciolous, knowledge sciomantic, ghost scissile, split
sciurid, marmot, squirrel sciurine, squirrel sciuroid, squirrel sciuromorphic,
gopher ...
6
Marlowe's Tragical History of Doctor Faustus: Greene : ...
Then trumpets cease, and music sounds' As to these exhibitions of the '
sciomantic' art, see note to opening Chorus, 1. 25 ; and compare the story of the
summoning of Hector and Achilles by a necromant at the court of the Emperor
Maximilian ...
Christopher Marlowe, 1887
7
Old English Drama: Select Plays. Marlowe, Tragical History ...
trumpets cease, and music sounds' As to these exhibitions of the ' sciomantic ' art
see note to opening Chorus, l. 25 ; and compare the story of the summoning of
Hector and Achilles by a necromant at the court of the Emperor Maximilian ...
Sir Adolphus William Ward, 1892
8
Tragical history of Dr. Faustus: Greene; Honourable history ...
Then trumpets cease, and music sounds' As to these exhibitions of the '
sciomantic' art see note to opening Chorus, l. 2 3 ; and compare the story of the
summoning of Hector and Achilles by a necromant at the court of the Emperor
Maximilian, ...
Christopher Marlowe, Sir Adolphus William Ward, Robert Greene, 1901
9
Report, with Accompanying Papers
The text in question is Servius' commentary on Aeneid 6:149 which discusses the
necromantic scene narrated by Lucan as well as the sciomantic rites described in
Homer and Virgil.64 In other words, the Servian gloss quite explicitly links ...
Dante Society of America, 2002
This series of spirit drawings is not unique as sciomantic works, but they are
unique as spirit drawings from the hand of a master. There is admittedly a
slightness about their execution which has been remarked upon by Blake
scholars, but it is ...
