onomancy
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divination by the letters of a name
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The merchant, Agilus, personifies his profession, agilis, (34) a simple fictive name rather than true onomancy. However, Robinson demonstrated the poetic substitution of a name etymology for a proper name with Seth, commonly understood to mean seed, plant, and resurrection, an etymology traceable to Jerome.
Wolfe dramatizes failed and successful conversion by onomancy in the languages of Catholic theology and liturgy.
Wolfe also performs a new onomancy, derived from eall and hrad.
The ancient art of onomancy, divination from names, is alive and kicking in this excellent book.
Charles Burnett discusses two divinatory texts, on chiromancy and onomancy, part of the original text and perhaps the earliest surviving ones of their kind in the West.
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