Ōn'o-mān'cy, n.

n. [Fr. onomancie, for onomatomancie, from Gr. ὄνομα, name, and μαντεία, divination; Sp. onomancia, It. onomantia, onomanzia.] Divination by the letters of a name.

Destinies were superstitiously, by onomancy, deciphered out of names. Camden.