[f. Gr. κρῑθή barley-corn + μαντεία divination (see -MANCY); cf. κρῑθόμαντις one who divined by barley.] Divination by meal strewed over animals sacrificed.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 166. Crithomancy, [divining] by grain, or corn.
1884. J. G. Bourke, Snake-Dance of Moquis, xv. 164–5. The use of this sacred meal closely resembles the crithomancy of the ancient Greeks.
