catoptromancy

n. 镜子(或水晶球)占卜( 古代的一种算命方法)

词形变化

catoptiomancy cattobomancy

别名

catoxtromancy cattobomancy cataptromancy catoptromancie catoptiomancy

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Divination by use of mirrors, or other reflective surfaces.

    不可数

    1660, Urquhart tr. Rabelais, Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. Her Trippa going on in his Discourse, said by Catoptromancy, likewise held in such account by the Emperor Didius Julianus, That by means thereof, he ever and anon foresaw all that which at any time did happen or befal unto him: Thou shalt not need to put on thy Spectacles; for in a Mirror thou wilt see her as clearly and manifestly Nebrundiated, and Billibodring-it, as if I should shew it in the Fountain of the Temple of Minerva near Parras.

词源

From the Ancient Greek κάτοπτρον (kátoptron, “mirror”) + -mancy.

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