geomancy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A method of divination using earth or the ground, such as interpreting markings on the ground or how handfuls of dirt land when tossed.

   “1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. Hard by here, in the Brown-wheat-Island, dwelleth Her Trippa; you know how by the Arts of Astrology, Geomancy, Chiromancy, Metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come...”

2. isim feng shui; Chinese geomancy.

   “geomancy [...] The pretended art of divining future events, or of ascertaining the luckiness or unluckiness of any event or locality, by means of signs connected with the earth [...] or, as in China, from the configuration and aspect of a particular region in its relation to some other.”