geomancie

geomancie (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of geomancy.
   • 1594, Robert Greene, Frier Bacon & Frier Bongay:

     Bungay. Let it be this, whether the spirites of piromancie or Geomancie, be most predominant in magick.
     Vander. I say of Piromancie.
     Bungay. And I of Geomancie.

   • 1620, J. Melton, Astrologaster:

     Sometimes they answer to that they are called for, by divers figures Men or Women set in polisht Stone, Iton, Brasse, Steele, Glasse, or the Nayles of ones hand; and this is called by the generall Name of Geomancie: And most commonly to such as these, they chuse out Women and Children.

• geomance, geomanci, geomansi, geomansy, geomanty, geomensie, geomensy, geomensye, geomese, geomesie, geomessie, gemensye

Borrowed from Middle French geomancie or its etymon Late Latin geomantia.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛːˌɔ(ː)manˈsiː(ə)/, /ˌd͡ʒɛː(ɔ)ˈmansiː(ə)/, /ˈd͡ʒɛː(ə)mə(n)siː(ə)/

geomancie (uncountable)

1. (chiefly Late Middle English, uncommon) geomancy (divination involving the ground)

• English: geomancy

• “ǧēomancī(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.