英语词汇“hydromantic”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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hydromantic

释义

hydromantic, a. and n.|haɪdrəʊˈmæntɪk|
[ad. med.L. hydromantic-us, f. Gr. ὑδρο- water + µαντικός prophetic: see -mantic. Cf. F. hydromantique.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to hydromancy. hydromantic machine, hydromantic vessel: see quot. 1741.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋157 Its own hydromantick vehicle.1741Chambers Cycl. s.v., The writers in optics furnish us with divers hydromantic machines, vessels, etc...To make a hydromantic vessel, which shall exhibit the images of external objects, as if swimming in water.
†B. n. Obs.
1. = hydromancy.
c1590Greene Fr. Bacon ii. 16 To tell by thadroma[n]ticke, ebbes and tides.
2. One skilled or practised in hydromancy.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 215 Sorcerers, Inchanters, Hydro- and Pyro-mantiques.
So hydroˈmantical a., hydroˈmantically adv.
1727Bailey vol. II, Hydromantically, by Hydromancy.

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