Word Meanings - TEPHRAMANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.

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• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• CONSUMPTION
  A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the
• ALTARAGE
  1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. 2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.
• ALTARIST
  A chaplain. A vicar of a church.
• CONSUMINGLY
  In a consuming manner.
• SACRIFICE
  1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid
• CONSUMPTIVELY
  In a way tending to or indication consumption. Beddoes.
• CONSUMABLE
  Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent. "Consumable commodities." Locke.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CONSUMPTIVE
  Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. It is not consumptive
• ALTARWISE
  In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• ASHES
  OHG. asca, G. asche, D. asch, Icel. & Sw. aska, Dan. aske, Goth. 1. The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal. 2. Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or
• ALTARPIECE
  The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
• CONSUMPTIVENESS
  A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.
• CONSUMMATION
  The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life). "Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Shak. From its original to its consummation. Addison. Quiet
• DIVINATION
  1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an
• CONSUME
  To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour. If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it. Shak. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
• ALTAR
  altaria, altar, prob. fr. altus high: cf. OF. alter, autier, F. 1. A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity. Noah builded an altar unto the Lord. Gen. viii.
• CONSUMER'S SURPLUS
  The excess that a purchaser would be willing to pay for a commodity over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; -- called also consumer's rent. The price which a person pays for a thing can never exceed, and seldom comes up to,
• SALTARELLO
  A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
• INCONSUMPTIBLE
  Inconsumable. Sir K. Digby.
• POTASHES
  Potash.
• INCONSUMMATE
  Not consummated; not finished; incomplete. Sir M. Hale. -- In`con*sum"mate*ness, n.
• UNDERCONSUMPTION
  Consumption of less than is produced; consumption of less than the usual amount. F. A. Walk
• UNCONSUMMATE
  Not consummated; not accomplished. Dryden.
• SELF-CONSUMING
  Consuming one's self or itself.
• SUPERALTAR
  A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.