spasmatomancyn.
(See quot. 1855.)
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by body parts or functions > [noun] > by convulsions of the limbs
spasmatomancy1855
1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 296 Spasmatomancy..is properly a part of medicine, for it is the art of foretelling from convulsive twitchings of the limbs diseases by which a man is about to be attacked.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 4/2 The treatises also contain occasional digressions on..podoscopy, spasmatomancy, &c.
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