Cledomancy vs Cledonomancy - What's the difference?
cledomancy | cledonomancy | Synonyms |
Cledomancy has no English definition.
Divination through interpreting random remarks, statements or events.
* 1911 Encyc. of Religion & Ethics
* 1970 B.I. Rakoczi in Man, Myth & Magic v.
Cledonomancy is a synonym of cledomancy.
Cledomancy is often a misspelling of cledonomancy.
Cledomancy has no English definition.
As a noun cledonomancy is
divination through interpreting random remarks, statements or events.cledomancy
Not English
Cledomancy has no English definition. It may be misspelled.cledonomancy
English
Noun
(-)- The consultant whispered his questions into the god's ear, then stopped his own ears, went out, and, when he got beyond the market-place, listened for chance words from passers-by. These were construed into an answer. This form of divination (cledonomancy) remained popular at all periods.
- Pausanias (2nd century AD) gives an example of cledonomancy. A man was not sure whether to marry a young woman of his own clan or a rich woman of more exalted rank. While thinking over the problem, he heard a child at play with his fellows shout, 'Take care of yourself' which he at once understood to mean that he should marry the rich one!