Meaning of onomatechny | Babel Free

Definitions

prognostication by the letters of a name; onomancy

rare, uncountable

Examples

“To these questions it is scarcely necessary to say that all the researches of onomatechny cannot supply even the beginning of an answer”

“...believing that there was a mystical connection between things and their names. Plato was a firm believer in this form of augury or onomatechy”

“Finally, by combining onomatechny, history and imagination, he reconstructed what he assumed to be the original North British version of the Tristan fable”

CEFR level