stichomancy
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στίχος (stíkhos, “line, row, verse”) and Ancient Greek μαντεία (manteía, “divination”); + -mancy.
Noun
stichomancy (uncountable)
- divination by randomly selecting lines or passages from books
Synonyms
- bibliomancy
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stichomancy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)