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n. - The art of predicting the future by using a sieve and shears.

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  • By coscinomancy, most religiously observed of old amidst the ceremonies of the ancient Romans.
  • As for magic, necromancy, pyromancy, geomancy, coscinomancy, and all the other mancies -- there was then a whole literature about them.
  • A mode of divination much in vogue in New England as in Old. Called also “sieve and shears” or “riddle and shears”: the learned name is coscinomancy.
  • Asus eee pc, boiled asses' heads, cephalonomancy, chair-throwing, coscinomancy, gnu/linux, linux journal
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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