archaeomancy
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Etymology edit
archaeo- + -mancy, from Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “ancient”) and μαντεία (manteía, “prophecy”)
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archaeomancy (uncountable)
- (rare) Divination using sacred relics.
- 2004 May, Peter N. Peregrine, “Predicting the Future State of the World Using Archaeological Data: An Exercise in Archaeomancy”, in Cross-Cultural Research, volume 38, number 2, title, page 133:
- Predicting the Future State of the World Using Archaeological Data: An Exercise in Archaeomancy
- 2014, C. L. Holland, Conversations with Dragons[1], page 8:
- He thinks that in ancient Camanac if skills like yours were common they'd have had names for them– archaeomancy, chronomancy, kineomancy. That sort of thing.