geomancie

See also: géomancie

English

Noun

geomancie (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of geomancy
   • 1594, Robert Greene, Frier Bacon & Frier Bongay:

     Bungay. Let it be this, whether the spirites of piromancie or Geomancie, be most predominant in magick.
     Vander. I say of Piromancie.
     Bungay. And I of Geomancie.

   • 1620, J. Melton, Astrologaster:

     Sometimes they answer to that they are called for, by divers figures Men or Women set in polisht Stone, Iton, Brasse, Steele, Glasse, or the Nayles of ones hand; and this is called by the generall Name of Geomancie: And most commonly to such as these, they chuse out Women and Children.