ceraunoscopy

English

Etymology

From cerauno- +‎ -scopy.

Noun

ceraunoscopy (uncountable)

1. Divination by interpreting thunder and lightning.
   • 1758 September, The Monthly Review, London, page 301:

     Mr. Lampredi divides his ſubject into ſeveral heads, viz. Natural Theology, Coſmogony, Ceraunoscopy, i.e. the judgments to be formed from thunder and lightning, Phyſic, Botany, Mechanics, and Politics.

   • 1861, Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library of M. Guglielmo Libri, part 1, page 301:

     In this valuable work, treating of the Natural Theology, Cosmogony, and Ceraunoscopy of the Etruscans, the author refutes many of the opinions of Brucker.

   • 2004, Quill Mastercraft, Out of his Time: The Spiritual Struggle and Magickal Writings of a Modern Mage, part 1, page 98:

     Ceraunoscopy uses patterns of lightning during a thunderstorm as a form of divination.

   • 2016, Kyle Grothoff, Astrology in Augustan Rome: A Cultural History, page 64:

     Most important for the present survey and also the most convincing part of Weinstock’s analysis are the fundamental and pervasive connections he highlights between Etruscan ceraunoscopy, and Greek and Babylonian astrology/astronomy, especially planetary theory.

Synonyms

• brontomancy
• ceraunomancy

Hypernyms

• aeromancy
• meteoromancy