libanomancy
nounEtymology From Ancient Greek λιβανομαντεία (libanomanteía), from λίβανος (líbanos, “frankincense”) + μᾰντείᾱ (mănteíā, “divination”).
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Divination by interpreting the smoke or ash of incense.
- Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. 133, Urquhart translating Rabelais, 1660. By Libanomancy, for the which we shall need but a little Frankincense
- Hypernyms
- capnomancy