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Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.

Divination by inspection of entrails of victims offered in sacrifice.

Divination by means of water, -- practiced by the ancients.

Of or pertaining to divination by water.

Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.

divination practiced with water in a basin, by throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was sought.

Divination by means of stones.

A combining form denoting divination; as, aleuromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, etc.

Of or pertaining to divination, or to the condition of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic. [R.] "Mantic fury." Trench.

The act or art of divination. [R.]

A species of divination by meteors, chiefly by thunder and lightning, which was held in high estimation by the Romans.

Divination by the movements of mice.

. For the excellency of the soul, namely, its power of divining dreams; that several such divinations have been made, none Addison.

Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have. Crabb.

Divination by means of dreams. De Quincey.

Divination by the letters of a name; nomancy. [R.] Camden.

Divination by the nails.

Divination by serpents, as by their manner of eating, or by their coils.

Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc. Ornithomancy grew into an elaborate science. De Quincey.

Divination by means of bones. [R.]