Definitions For Gyromancy
Noun
GYROMANCY (plural - or gyromancies) divination, divination where people walk on a circle of letters until dizzy; the letters they fall on are significant. Similar to whirling dervishes, dervishing. divination, divination by whirling a coin on a circle of letters.Quotations
1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. : By Giromancy, if thou shouldst turn round Circles, thou mightest assure thy self from me, that they would fall always on the wrong side. 1868 Chambers's Encyc. V : GYROMANCY..was a method of divination by means of a circle, and was generally performed in the following manner: the soothsayer described a circle, and marked it all round with letters; then he commenced to walk round the circle, repeating his incantations, and at the places where he stopped the letters were carefully noted, and by the interpretation put upon these letters, the answer of the god was obtained. 1953 Gaynor (ed.) Dict. Mysticism : Gyromancy: Divination by having a person walk around a chalked circle until he collapses and observing the position of his body relative to the circle.Alternative forms
gyromancye, giromancy, giromantie (all obsolete)Etymology
{{confix, en, gyro, mancy}}Is Gyromancy a Scrabble Word?
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The word Gyromancy is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends