Ichthyomancy vs Augury - What's the difference?
ichthyomancy | augury |
Divination interpreting the appearance and behaviour of fish. A form of augury.
Divination interpreting the entrails of fish. A form of aruspicy.
A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
(by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
* (Edgar Allan Poe)
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
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Ichthyomancy is a hyponym of augury.
As nouns the difference between ichthyomancy and augury
is that ichthyomancy is divination interpreting the appearance and behaviour of fish a form of augury while augury is a divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.ichthyomancy
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Alternative forms
* ichyomancy * icthiomancy * icthyomancy * ichthyonomancyNoun
(-)Quotations
* 1610 Vives in J. Healey Saint Augustine of the Citie of God *: Diuination generally was done by diuers means..by fishes, Ichthyomancy (this Apuleius was charged with)... * 1660 Urquhart translating Rabelais Gargantua &ast Pantagruel iii. xxv. *: By Icthiomancy , in ancient times so celebrated, and put in use by Tiresias and Polydamus, with the like certainty of event as was tried of old at the Dina-ditch within that Grove consecrated to Apollo, which is in the Territory of the Lycians. * 1920 L. Spence Encyc. Occult *: Ichthyomancy : Divination by the inspection of the entrails of fish. * 1973 Gibson Complete Illust. Bk Div. &ast Prophecy *: ICHTHYOMANCY : Divination by the examination of fish offered for a sacrifice. This can be extended to include the actions of living fish, which have many traditional interpretations, some still popular with present-day fishermen. * 1986 P. Hellweg Insomniac's Dict. x. *: Ichthyomancy - The next fish caught.augury
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(auguries)- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
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