Relating to divination or prophecy obtained through human sacrifice or observation of human bodies.
From 'anthropomancy' + '-ic' suffix. Describes practices and beliefs centered on predicting the future through human-based divination, documented in ancient historical and anthropological sources.
This word appears in historical accounts of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and ancient Rome—it's a linguistic reminder that even sophisticated civilizations sometimes practiced rituals we now recognize as brutally unjust.
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