noun
- divination or fortune-telling by randomly selecting passages from a book, especially the Bible
Usage: rare; from Greek biblio- (book) + -mancy (divination)
Examples
- Some people practiced bibliomancy by opening the Bible at random and interpreting the first passage they read.
- The fortune teller claimed to use bibliomancy to predict the client's future.
- Bibliomancy was sometimes used in medieval times as a method of seeking guidance.
- She dismissed bibliomancy as superstition rather than a legitimate form of divination.
- The novel's character relied on bibliomancy, believing that random book passages held hidden meanings.