different between divination vs anthropomancy

English

Etymology

From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?v??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

divination (countable and uncountable, plural divinations)

1. (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
2. The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
3. (countable) An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:divination

Derived terms

• star divination

Related terms

• divine
• predivination

Translations

See also

• Methods of divination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin d?v?n?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination

Further reading

• “divination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination (act of divining)

Related terms

• diviner

English

Etymology

anthropo- +? -mancy, from Ancient Greek ???????? (ánthr?pos, “man, mankind, human, humanity”) + ??????? (manteía, “divination”).

Noun

anthropomancy (uncountable)

1. divination by the interpretation of human sacrificial entrails.

Synonyms

• antinopomancy

Translations

References

• "Antinopomancy, [sic] by the entrails of men, women and children..." -- Gaule The Magastromancer xix, 1652

  "By anthropomancy, practised by the Roman Emperor Heliogabalus. It is somewhat irksome, but thou wilt endure well enough, seeing thou art destined to be a cuckold." -- Works of Rabelais III. xxv, 1951

• anthropomancy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• anthropomancy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• anthropomancy at OneLook Dictionary Search