giromancy

English

Noun

giromancy (plural giromancies)

  1. Alternative spelling of gyromancy.
    • 1694, Rabelais, François, The works of F. Rabelais, M.D., or, The lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel with a large account of the life and works of the author, particularly an explanation of the most difficult passages in them never before publish'd in any language / done out of French by Sir Tho. Urchard, Kt., and others.‎[1], page 208:
      By Giromancy, if thou shouldst turn round Circles, thou mightest assure thy self from me, that they would fall al∣ways on the wrong side
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