Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to geomancy; of the nature of geomancy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining or belonging to geomancy.
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- adjective of or relating to
geomancy
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Examples
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Through a series of adventures, geomantic resonances, and astronomical correspondences, the site of Cuzco was chosen.
Olga Bonfiglio: Travelogue: 100th Anniversary Of Machu Picchu Discovery Olga Bonfiglio 2012
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Well, at the moment I have something coming out in an issue of Subterranean edited by Jonathan Strahan sometime this spring, I think (a story also preoccupied with climate change, hope, and forgiveness), and another story (about Korean history and geomantic warfare) coming out in Carmelo Rafala's The Immersion Book of SF, as far as I know, sometime later this year.
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Through a series of adventures, geomantic resonances, and astronomical correspondences, the site of Cuzco was chosen.
Olga Bonfiglio: Travelogue: 100th Anniversary Of Machu Picchu Discovery Olga Bonfiglio 2012
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It operated similarly to the I Ching, relying on sixteen possible geomantic figures to divine the future.
Dark Oracle Alayna Williams 2010
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Each of the sixteen geomantic figures could occupy one of those positions.
Dark Oracle Alayna Williams 2010
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She reduced the sixteen lines of dots to four geomantic figures, the four Mothers.
Dark Oracle Alayna Williams 2010
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Bibliodyssey blog (which recently published a wonderful book about wonderful old books!) has a post up today with scans of a geomantic almanac from the mid-1500s:
Boing Boing 2008
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He's written at least half a dozen really good novels, from the near-future police procedural Days of Atonement to the far-future geomantic science fantasies Metropolitan and City on Fire.
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Spurred by the Olympics, the project symbolizes Beijing's goal of entering the big leagues -- and is dramatically changing the urban fabric of a city that for centuries followed ancient geomantic principles by avoiding breaking the earth's surface.
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He also claims to be a geomantic consultant to a well-known high-tech software company in Beijing.
Apocalypse When 2008
yarb commented on the word geomantic
Its acoustics were poor, proper names often came out garbled, a chaotic calendar messed up the order of events but, on the whole, the colored dots did form a geomantic picture of sorts.
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
June 3, 2008