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chaomancy

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Divination by aerial visions, a form of aeromancy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • 1650 French tr. Paracelsus Nine Books Of the Nature of Things (1674) ix. Chaomancy shews its Signs by the Stars of the Air and Wind, by the discolouring, destroying of all tender and subtil things [...] If the Stars of Chaomancy are moved, Spirits fall from the superiour Air, and Voices and Answers were often heard [...] There are seen Hobgoblins, Household Gods, airy Spirits, and Woodmen, &c. also a heavenly Dew and Manna falls upon Trees and Herbs.
  • 1908 Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dict. i. chaomancy...Fortune-telling by aerial apparitions.

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History

Etymology

From chao- (in a Paracelsian sense "atmosphere") + -mancy. By surface analysis, chao- + -mance + -y.