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Brewer's: Geomancy
(g soft). Divining by the earth. So termed because these diviners in the sixteenth century drew on the earth their magic circles, figures, and lines. (Greek, ge, the earth; mantei'a, prophecy.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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