improp. form for Cephalonomancy. [f. CEPHALO- + Gr. ὄνο-ς ass + μαντεία divination.] = Cephalomancy (in CEPHALO-): see quot.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 165. Cephaleonomancy, [pretending to divine] by brayling of an Asses head.
1807. Southey, Espriella’s Lett. (1814), III. 28. Cephaleonomancy, or the art of divination by an ass’s head, is a species of art magic which still flourishes in England.
