logarithmancy
English
editEtymology
editFrom logarithm + -mancy; or a blend of logarithm + arithmancy.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɒɡəˈɹɪðmənsi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /lɑɡəˈɹɪðmənsi/
- Hyphenation: log‧a‧rith‧man‧cy
Noun
editlogarithmancy (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare) Divination using logarithms.
- 1652, John Gaule, “From the Affinity to Witch-craft”, in Πῦς-μαντία [Pys-mantia] the Mag-astro-mancer, or The Magicall-astrologicall-diviner Posed, and Puzzled. By John Gaule, Minister of Great Staughton in the County of Huntingdon, London: Printed for Joshua Kirton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, →OCLC, page 165:
- What difference betwixt Astromancy, Magomancy, or Magastromancy (as touching a sorcerous both superstition, and operation) and all these after-named? viz. […] Arithmancy, by numbers; Logarithmancy, by Logarithmes; […]
Alternative forms
editReferences
edit- ^ Jost Bürgi (1620) Aritmetische und Geometrische Progress Tabulen: Sambt gründlichen undterricht, wie solche nützlich in allerley Rechnungen zugebrauchen und verstanden werden sol [Arithmetic and Geometrical Progression Tables: Together with Thorough Instructions, on How to Use and Understand Them in All Kinds of Calculations], Prague: Sessen, →OCLC.
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