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geomanticus

geomanticus , concerned w. geomancy. b (as sb. m.) geomancer. s1219 fuerunt ‥ in civitate quidam clerici ~i qui ante obsidionem mortem comitis [S. de Monte Forti] predixerant M. Par. Maj. III 57.  b c1196 hic [sc. in urbe Herefordensi] geomanticus est, formans ter quinque figuras / judicio quarum queque futura videt (Sim. Heref) RHS Trans. 4th S. XIX 36; ~i, necromantici, augures et alii divinantes Bradw. CD 183D; ipsam [Witclevisticam pravitatem] damnant omnes philosophi, exceptis paucis mathematicis, ~is ‥ ceterisque divinantibus Netter DAF I 69a; s1449 Thomas B. nigromanticus vel ~us ‥ decapitatur W. Worc. Ann. 768.

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