pegomancy

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. divination by fountains uncountable
    — This was the Pegomancy of the Greeks; who also solicited the answer of the Nymphs of the Spring, by offerings of bread, stones, or coins, or by dipping in a mirror, and construing the figures which the water had left on it.

词源

Ancient Greek πηγή (pēgḗ, “fountain”) + -mancy.
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