geomancer
(ˈdʒiːəʊˌmænsə(r))
[f. geomanc-y + -er1.]
One who practises geomancy.
| c 1400 Apol. Loll. 95 And þus are callid geomanceris, þat werkun bi þe ȝerþ. 1603 Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. viii. 199 Making them to hitte the truth by chance..and so the Astrologer no better then the Chiromancer, or Geomancer. 1646 Sir. T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iii. 12 Fortune tellers, Juglers, Geomancers, and the like incantatory impostors..doe daily and professedly delude them. 1814 Cary Dante, Purg. xix. 4 The geomancer sees His Greater Fortune up the east ascend. 1878 J. H. Gray China I. xii. 297 The selection of a site for a tomb is entrusted to a geomancer. |