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-mancy

  1. a combining form meaning “divination,†of the kind specified by the initial element:

    necromancy.



-mancy

combining form

  1. indicating divination of a particular kind

    chiromancy

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of -mancy1

Middle English -manci ( e ), -mancy ( e ) < Old French -mancie < Latin -³¾²¹²Ô³ÙÄ«²¹ < Greek ³¾²¹²Ô³Ù±ðí²¹ divination. See mantic, -cy
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of -mancy1

from Old French -mancie, from Latin -mantia, from Greek manteia soothsaying
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The new Netflix movie “Enola Holmes,†based on the Mancy Springer mystery series, stars a delightful Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin.

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His most recent albums — “The Mancy of Sound,†“Functional Arrythmia†and “Synovial Joints,†the latter two inspired by the drummer Milford Graves’s studies of rhythm’s biological roots — find him and his band mates fluent in the language they’ve invented.

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“See you at dinner!†said Hermione, and she set off for Arith- mancy, while Harry and Ron headed toward North Tower, and Divination.

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“Apart from new business contribution, investment return remains the biggest swing factor†for embedded value and profit after tax growth, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analysts Mancy Sun and Philippa Rogers wrote in a Feb. 8 report.

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Goldman Sachs’s Mancy Sun and Philippa Rogers estimated a 46 percent jump in the Oct.

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