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BELOMANCY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Bel"o*man`cy\, n. [Gr. ?; ? arrow + ? a diviner: cf.
F. b['e]lomancie.]
A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked
arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the
arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. --Encyc.
Brit.
 

 

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