geomancy

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geomancy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Geomancy \Ge"o*man`cy\, n. [OE. geomance, geomancie, F.
     g['e]omance, g['e]omancie, LL. geomantia, fr. Gr. ge`a, gh^,
     the earth + mantei`a divination.]
     A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by
     little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly
     on paper. Geomantic

geomancy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  geomancy
      n 1: divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as
           points taken at random or the arrangement of particles
           thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region
           and its relation to another)