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ONOMANCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divination by the letters of a name
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("onomancy" is a kind of...):
divination; foretelling; fortune telling; soothsaying (the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means)
Derivation:
onomancer (one who practices onomancy)