armomancy

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Divination using the shoulder blade of an animal. It was taken from a dead animal and thrown into a fire, and the cracks formed in the bone were then interpreted.

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  2. 2.

    Divination through inspecting one's shoulders. In ancient times, this inspection was to see whether a human was a suitable sacrifice to the gods.

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词源

From Latin armus (“shoulder blade”) + -mancy.

来源：wiktionary