bibliomancy.

Divination by selecting or interpreting a passage from a book, often through chance.

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Words that belong together

• practice bibliomancy
• a bibliomancy ritual

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The character’s bibliomancy made an ordinary passage seem like a warning.

She recorded the bibliomancy ritual without claiming its prediction came true.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.