alectryomancer

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Noun

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alectryomancer (plural alectryomancers)

  1. A practitioner of alectryomancy.
    • 1985, Cathleen Jordan, Alfred Hitchcock's no harm undone, page 113:
      I was unprepared for the change in attire and started slightly when the alectryomancer reappeared.
    • 2001, Clifford A. Pickover, Dreaming the Future: The Fantastic Story of Prediction, page 81:
      The alectryomancer sometimes wishes to know the name of a person and allows a bird to pick corn grains from letters drawn in a circle on the ground.
    • 2008, Bob Sheasley, Home to Roost: A Backyard Farmer Chases Chickens Through the Ages, →ISBN:
      The alectryomancers knew how to tap the power of the living chicken.
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