libanomancy
English
editEtymology
editFrom Greek libanos, frankincense.
Noun
editlibanomancy (uncountable) (also libranomancy, livanomancy, and knissomancy)
- Divination by interpreting burning incense smoke
Quotations
edit- Weyer De praestigiis daemonum xii.: libanomanteia, 1583
- "By Libanomancy, for the which we shall need but a little Frankincense." -- Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. 133, Urquhart translating Rabelais, 1660.
- "Livanomancy, by burning of frankincense." -- Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, Robbins, 1959
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