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Entity vs Aspidomancy - What's the difference?

entity | aspidomancy |

As nouns the difference between entity and aspidomancy

is that entity is that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit often used for organisations which have no physical form while aspidomancy is divination by entering or sitting on a circled area, or sitting on a shield, to summon an entity or go into a state of altered consciousness to gain prophetic knowledge.

entity

English

(wikipedia entity)

Noun

(entities)
  • That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
  • *
    • It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities .
  • An existent something that has the properties of being real, and having a real existence.
  • (computing) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.
  • The state or quality of being or existence.
    • The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
  • * Quotation: The policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity --

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    * See also

    Derived terms

    * entitative * entity-relationship model * geopolitical entity * legal entity * nonentity

    Related terms

    * duality * trinity * relationship

    aspidomancy

    English

    Noun

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  • divination by entering or sitting on a circled area, or sitting on a shield, to summon an entity or go into a state of altered consciousness to gain prophetic knowledge.
  • divination by the examination of a shield.

    • References

    ::"Aspidomantia , per clypeum." -- Fabricii Bibliographia Antiquaria xii., 1713 ::"Aspidomancy : A little known form of divination practised in the Indies, as we are told by some travellers. Delancre says that the diviner or sorcerer traces a circle, takes up his position therein seated on a buckler, and mutters certain conjurations. He becomes entranced and falls into an ecstasy, from which he only emerges to tell things that his client wishes to know, and which the devils has revealed to him." -- L. Spence Encyc. Occult, 1920 ::"Sitting on a shield, within the magic circle, and pronouncing conjurations, the karcist falls into a trance during which he makes mantic revelations. This is aspidomancy ." -- H.E. Wedeck Treasury of Witchcraft xii, 1961 ::"ASPIDOMANCY : A primitive form of divination in which an entranced sorcerer, seated in a magic circle, becomes inspired by the devil and upon awakening recounts the predictions revealed to him from that source." -- Gibson Complete Illust. Bk Div. & Prophecy, 1973 ::"aspidomancy a form of divination involving examination of a shield." -- Urdang (ed.) -Ologies & -Isms (3rd ed.), 1986