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Feb. 02, 2016
aeromancy \AIR-uh-man-see\ noun
1. the prediction of future events from observation of weather
conditions.
Quotes Mostly we compare them / to silent things, sensing / that
thunder is something else / that gets into themâa stone, a godâ /
and, as for what they want to say, / aeromancy, which presumed to
interpret, / never caught on.
-- James Richardson, "Essay on Clouds," The New Yorker, February 2,
2015 Origin Aeromancy entered English in the mid-1300s. The combining
form aero- means "air," and the combining form -mancy means
"divination" of the kind specified by the initial element. More From
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