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gastromancy Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈgæstrəʊmænsɪ|
[f. Gr. γαστρ(ο)-, γαστήρ belly + µαντεία divination (Gr. had γαστροµαντεύεσθαι ‘to divine by the belly’).]
Divination by the belly.
1. (See quots.)
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 294 Hydromancy..done..in a glasse bottle full of water, wherein a Childe must looke (and this is called Gastromancy of the glasses belly). 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 366 Gastromancie procured answere by pictures, or representations in glasse-vessels of water, after the due Rites.
2. (See quot. 1652.)
1652Gaule Magastrom. xix. 165 Gastromancy, [divining] by the sound of, or signes upon the belly. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxv, Gastromancy, which kind of ventral fatiloquency was for a long time together used in Ferrara. [a1836E. Smedley Occ. Sc. in Encycl. Metrop. (1855) 323 Gastromancy or divination from the belly, is now generally explained by ventriloquism.] |