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nomancy, onomancy
Divination from names or the letters of a name, as, the number of vowels in a name, the sum of the numerical value of the letters, or the like.
This entry is located in the following units: -mancy, -mancer, -mantic, -mantical (page 10) nom-, nomen-, nomin-, -nomia, -nomic (page 3)
onomancy, onomomancy, onomantical
1. Divination or fortune telling with names.
2. Divination using proper names based on a subject's given name, popular in the Late Middle Ages.
This entry is located in the following units: -mancy, -mancer, -mantic, -mantical (page 11) onomato-, onoma-, onomo-, onom-, ono- (page 1)