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Meaning of chaomancy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Divination by aerial visions, a form of aeromancy.

uncountable

Examples

“1650 French tr. Paracelsus Nine Books Of the Nature of Things (1674) ix. Chaomancy shews its Signs by the Stars of the Air and Wind, by the discolouring, destroying of all tender and subtil things […] If the Stars of Chaomancy are moved, Spirits fall from the superiour Air, and Voices and Answers were often heard […] There are seen Hobgoblins, Household Gods, airy Spirits, and Woodmen, &c. also a heavenly Dew and Manna falls upon Trees and Herbs.”
“1908 Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dict. i. chaomancy...Fortune-telling by aerial apparitions.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Chaon Chaonan chaoni Chaoosh chaophilia chaoplex

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