Aeromancy

Alternative forms

• Early Modern English: aeromancie, æromancy, aëromancy, aeromanty, eromancy, heromancy
• Forms containing "ë" are now obsolete.

Origin

From Ancient Greek aero, "air".

Full definition of aeromancy

Noun

1. Divination by use of atmospheric conditions.
• "heromancy" -- OED, 1546"If these apparitions are in the Ayre, then it is called Aeromancie." -- Astrologaster, J. Melton, 1620
• "Have you a mind, quoth Her Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by..aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his Clouds maketh great estimation..?" -- Works of Rabelais III, 1951

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