[a. F. céromancie, med.L. cēromantia, f. Gr. κηρός wax + μαντεία divination.] Divination from the figures produced by dropping melted wax into water.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 165–6.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Ceromanty, divination or sooth-saying by wax put into water.
a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xxv. By ceromancy, where, by the means of wax dissolved into water, thou shalt see the … lively representation of thy future wife.
