“spatulamancy”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

spatulamancy

释义

spatulaˈmancy
[ad. med. or mod.L. spatulamancia, f. spatula shoulder-blade.]
Divination by means of the shoulder-blade of an animal. (Cf. spade-bone and speal-bone.)
In quot. 1652 there is app. some error or omission, as the explanation would more properly apply to *spatilomancy, f. Gr. σπατίλη excrement, parings of leather.
1652Gaule Magastrom. xix. 166 Spatalamancy, [divining] by skins, bones, excrement.1720De Foe D. Campbell (1841) 241 If it be by consulting the shoulder-bones of any beast, it goes by the name of spatulamancy.1887Ribton-Turner Vagrants & Vagrancy 78 Spatulamancy.., by reading..the blade bone of a shoulder of mutton well scraped.

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