ornithomancy en · NOUN
Etymology
From ornitho- + -mancy.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Divination by means of birds, especially from their behaviour, flight, vocalisations, etc.
Ornithomancy was a popular way of searching into futurity.
1880, James Grant, The Mysteries of all Nations, Leith: Reid & Son, page 380:This chapter in the great volume of superstition was indeed cultivated with unusual solicitude amongst the Pagans - ornithomancy (or the derivation of omens from the motions of birds) grew into an elaborate science.
1840 April, Thomas de Quincey, “Modern Superstition”, in Blackwoods Magazine, page 564, column 2:
Translations (13)
ar طِيَرَة (divination by means of birds) · ar تَطَيُّر (divination by means of birds) · it ornitomanzia (divination by means of birds) · ca ornitomància (divination by means of birds) · trv sisil (divination by means of birds) · ar طِيرَة (divination by means of birds) · fa اورنیتومانسی (divination by means of birds) · zh 鳥占 (divination by means of birds) · grc ὀρνιθομαντεία (divination by means of birds) · fr ornithomancie (divination by means of birds) · el ορνιθομαντεία (divination by means of birds) · arz علم تنجيم الطيور (divination by means of birds) · es ornitomancia (divination by means of birds)