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scatomancy|ˈskætəʊmænsɪ|
[ad. mod.L. scatomantīa: see prec. and -mancy.]
Divination or diagnosis based on the examination of the fæces.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes lxxxiii. 145 b, For this cause Scatomancie, Oromancie, Drymimancie, be called the diuinations or Prognostications of Phisitians, gathered by ordures and vrines. 1861Reade Cloister & H. xxvi, I studied at Montpelier... There learned I Dririmancy, Scatomancy, Pathology [etc.]. 1897in Syd. Soc. Lex. |