capnomancy
Noun
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Noun
capnomancy (uncountable)
- Divination by interpreting smoke rising from a fire. A form of pyromancy.
- 1610, Vives in J. Healey Saint Augustine of the Citie of God
- Diuination generally was done by diuers means...by smoake, Capnomancy.
- 1897, Three Bks Occult Phil. lvii. (Agrippa)
- To these is also added Capnomancy, so called from smoke, because it searcheth into the flame and smoke; and thin colors, sounds and motions when they are carried upright, or on one side, or round...
- 1610, Vives in J. Healey Saint Augustine of the Citie of God
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