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n. - Divination by fire or flames.

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Usage examples (13)
  • "pyromancy," if in the entrails of animals sacrificed on the altars of demons, "aruspicy."
  • Not scrying, not psychometry, not pyromancy-no form of divination or clairvoyance that she tried had revealed either Eric or Magnus's location.
  • Not scrying, not psychometry, not pyromancy — no form of divination or clairvoyance that she tried had revealed either Eric or Magnus's location.
  • Have you a mind, quoth Herr Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by pyromancy, by aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his...
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