"onomatechny" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1904, The International Quarterly:",
          "text": "To these questions it is scarcely necessary to say that all the researches of onomatechny cannot supply even the beginning of an answer",
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          "ref": "1906, A Key to Puzzledom ; Or, Complete Handbook of the Enigmatic Art:",
          "text": "...believing that there was a mystical connection between things and their names. Plato was a firm believer in this form of augury or onomatechy",
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          "text": "Finally, by combining onomatechny, history and imagination, he reconstructed what he assumed to be the original North British version of the Tristan fable",
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        "prognostication by the letters of a name; onomancy"
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