GASTROMANCY

n.[Gr. belly, and divination. ] A kind of divination among the ancients by means of words seeming to be uttered from the belly.

GASTROMANCY

Gas `tro *man "cy, n. Etym: [Gastro- + -mancy: cf. F. gastromancy. ](Antiq.) (a ) A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach. (b ) A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art.