horomancer

horomancer

English

Etymology

horo- +‎ -mancer

Noun

horomancer (plural horomancers)

1. A person who uses time magic or time-related divination.
   • 1948 August 1, Henry Kuttner, Happy Ending, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN:

     He let the curtain fall back into place, making legible again the painted inscription: HOROSCOPES—LEARN YOUR FUTURE—and he stood staring at the remarkable horomancer.

   • 2010 October 22, Jay Lake, Escapement, MacMillan, →ISBN, page 180:

     It was the work of years to teach a navigator what he must know, or a cartographer or horomancer or any of the other disciplines that sat in quiet rooms to give the orders that moved men and ships alike.

   • 2021 December 30, J. Summerfield, chapter 24, in Enchanted Possibilities, Summerfield Entertainment:

     It seemed like a small eternity passed waiting for the ratties to contact me—specifically 1.38 eternities for those horomancers out there.