Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for ON'O-MAN-CY
ON'O-MAN-CY, n. [Gr. ονομα, name, and μαντεια, divination.]
Divination by the letters of a name. Destinies were superstitiously, by onomancy, deciphered out of names. – Camden.
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