999英语网 单词
sciomancy的意思
sciomancy
英 ['samns]
美 ['skimnsi]
- n. 魔鬼占卜，扶乩
英文词源
- sciomancy (n.)
- "divination by ghostly communication," 1620s, from Modern Latin sciomantia, from scio-, Latinized comb. form of Greek skia "shade, shadow" (see shine (v.)) + Latinized form of Greek manteia (see -mancy).