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From: play@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Geomancy?
Message-ID: <544@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 06:05:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 06:05:00 1985
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In article <322@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:
>I don't have a dictionary here, but I was under the impression that "-mancy"
>referred specifically to modes of divination.  Thus geomancy, chiromancy,
>oneiromancy, etc.  I could be wrong.

You are right.
	-mancy 'divination by means of';
	derives from Greek manteia 'oracle, divination'.