[f. Gr. ἀλεκτρυών cock + μαντεία divination. Cf. Fr. alectryomancie.] Divination by means of a cock with grains of corn.
1684. Phil. Trans., XIV. 706. The author singles Alectryomancy for the subject of this book.
1819. Pantol., Alectoromantia, an ancient kind of divination by means of a cock, called also Alectryomancy.
