ceraunomancy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Divination by thunder or lightning; the use of thunder or lightning to supernaturally gain information.
Uncountable
noun
The magical or supernatural power of conjuring or controlling thunder or lightning.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Indeed as DeMille in 1956 filmed the Decalogue, God inscribes each commandment literally with a bolt of lightning. Because the film functions to read the signs of the times, the practice here invokes ceraunomancy (divination by lightning)."
- "Whether or not that is true, the equal weight given to public and private contexts in the sources for Etruscan ceraunomancy certainly does provide a corrective to our literary sources and their preoccupation with public divination whence one might be led to believe that traditional divination was exclusively public or communal in nature prior to the first-century.."