Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for O-PHI-OM'AN-CY
O-PHI-OL'O-GYO-PHI-O-MORPH'OUS
O-PHI-OM'AN-CY, a. [Gr. οφις, a serpent, and μαντεια, divination.]
In antiquity, the art of divining or predicting events by serpents, as by their manner of eating or by their coils. Encyc.
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