weathermaking
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weathermaking (uncountable)
- The (attempted) influencing of the weather, by magic or technology.
- 1958, United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services, Inquiry Into Satellite and Missile Programs, page 613:
- Tell us a little more, please, Dr. von Braun, about weathermaking.
- 2003, Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Christian Rätsch, Wolf-Dieter Storl, Witchcraft Medicine:
- The ritual was barely finished when it began to rain. Naturally the Celts and Germanic peoples also had weathermaking.