Definition of "rhabdomancy" []

• Divination by means of a wand or rod, especially for discovering underground water or ores. (noun)

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• "98 We have not heard the last of this old “dowsing rod”: the latest form of rhabdomancy is an electrical-rod invented in the United"
• "If it does, revoke, O student, your shrill _eheu_ for the Greekless and untrousered savage of the canoe, suppress your feelings, and go steadily into rhabdomancy with several divining-rods, in search of the Pierian spring which must surely exist somewhere among the guttural districts of the Ojibbeway tongue."
• "This deceptio visus, or product of rhabdomancy, easily effected by an adept of the"