Look up: bibliomancy

1. Bibliomancy
   Bib'li·o·man`cy noun [ Greek ... book + -mancy : confer French bibliomancie .] A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.
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2. Bibliomancy
   • (n.) A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.
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3. bibliomancy
   (from the article `magic`) ...and rites with Germanic folk rituals to empower natural ingredients to cure ailments caused by poisons, elf-attack, demonic possession, or other ...
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4. bibliomancy
   bibliomancy Divination by picking Bible or other book passages at random; several church councils were formed in the fifth century A.D. to study and forbid this 'common' practice. —Word Info image © ALL rights reserved. One of the methods used was for a person to point to a line or passage of t...
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5. Bibliomancy
   Bibliomancy also called sortes biblicae, or sortes sanctorum is divination by means of the phrases in a book, especially the verses in the bible. Bibliomancy was an ancient practise, the ancients drew prognostications from the works of Homer and Virgil. In 465 the Council of Yannes condemned the pra...
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6. Bibliomancy
   `Bibliomancy` is the use of books in divination. The method of employing sacred books (especially specific words and verses) for `magical medicine`, for removing negative entities, or for divination is widespread in many religions of the world: :What the Vedas were to the Hindus, Homer to the Gre...
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