zoomantist, n.

zoomantist
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# † zoomantistnoun

## Factsheet

### What does the noun zoomantist mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun zoomantist. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

This word is now obsolete. It is only recorded in the 1860s.

### Where does the noun zoomantist come from?

Earliest known use

1860s

The only known use of the noun zoomantist is in the 1860s.

OED's only evidence for zoomantist is from 1861, in the writing of Fitzedward Hall, oriental scholar and philologist.

### Nearby entries

1. zoology, n. 1663–
2. zoom, n. 1917–
3. zoom, v.¹ 1886–
4. Zoom, v.² 2014–
5. zoom, int. 1856–
6. zoomable, adj. 1972–
7. zoomagnetism, n. 1824–
8. zooman, n. 1871–
9. zoomancy, n. 1888–
10. zoomania, n. 1807–
11. zoomantist, n.1861
12. Zoomar, n. 1946–
13. zoomechanical, adj. 1897
14. zoomechanics, n. 1888–1903
15. zoomelanin, n. 1858–
16. zoometric, adj. 1892–
17. zoometry, n. 1878–
18. zooming, n. 1892–
19. zooming, adj. 1904–
20. zoom lens, n. 1932–
21. zoomorph, n. 1883–

## Meaning & use

Obsolete.

1. 1861
   A person who a person who practises divination by observing the actions of animals; cf. zoomancy n.
   Apparently an isolated use.
   1. 1861

      > Vasantáraja Bhatta, the zoomantist.

      F. Hall in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal 1861 (1862) vol. 30 198 (note)
   animals
   1. zoomantist 1861
      A person who a person who practises divination by observing the actions of animals; cf. zoomancy, n.
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Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.