Catoxtromancy vs Catoptromancy - What's the difference?
catoxtromancy | catoptromancy | Alternative forms |
Catoxtromancy has no English definition.
Divination by use of mirrors, or other reflective surfaces. Similar to crystallomancy, dubjed, enoptromancy and scrying.
* 1660 , Urquhart tr. Rabelais, Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv.
* 1880 , J. Grant, Mysteries of all Nations , xlii
Catoptromancy is a alternative form of catoxtromancy.
Catoxtromancy is likely misspelled.
Catoxtromancy has no English definition.
As a noun catoptromancy is
divination by use of mirrors, or other reflective surfaces. Similar to crystallomancy, dubjed, enoptromancy and scrying.catoxtromancy
Not English
Catoxtromancy has no English definition. It may be misspelled.catoptromancy
English
Alternative forms
* catoxtromancy * cattobomancy * cataptromancy * catoptromancie * catoptiomancyNoun
(-)- Her Trippa going on in his Discourse, said by Catoptromancy , likewise held in such account by the Emperor Didius Julianus, That by means thereof, he ever and anon foresaw all that which at any time did happen or befal unto him: Thou shalt not need to put on thy Spectacles; for in a Mirror thou wilt see her as clearly and manifestly Nebrundiated, and Billibodring-it, as if I should shew it in the Fountain of the Temple of Minerva near Parras.
- Catoptromancy was a species of divination performed by the aid of a mirror. This..was common among the Achaians.