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runecasting

noun

Etymology

From rune + casting.

  1. inherited from castynge
  2. compounded as runecasting — “rune + casting”

Definitions

  1. The act of scattering stones, tablets, etc., each marked with a rune on one side, for the…

    The act of scattering stones, tablets, etc., each marked with a rune on one side, for the purposes of foretelling the future, determining a course of action, etc.

  2. An instance of this

    An instance of this; a runecast.

    • Linguistic evidence is of two kinds: words for the tools of runecasting and terms that originally must have been characterizations of the results of runecastings.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for runecasting. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA