“coscinomancy”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

coscinomancy

释义

coscinomancy|ˈkɒsɪnəʊˌmænsɪ|
Also 7 choschino-, cosino-, 7–8 coskino-, 9 koskino-.
[ad. med.L. coscinomantia, f. Gr. κοσκινόµαντις, f. κόσκινο-ν sieve: see -mancy.]
Divination by the turning of a sieve (held on a pair of shears, etc.).
1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. xvii. 356 Comparing Astrologie with Aruspicie, Hydromancie, Chiromancie, Choschinomancie, and such like.1653H. More Antid. Ath. iii. ii. (1712) 89 Coskinomancy, or finding who stole or spoiled this or that thing by the Sieve and Shears.1777Brand Pop. Antiq. (ed. Hazlitt) III. 301–2. 1871 Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 116 The so-called coscinomancy, or, as it is described in Hudibras, ‘th' oracle of sieve and shears’.

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