[f. ANTHROPO- + Gr. μαντεία divination: see -MANCY. Cf. mod.Fr. anthropomancie. Cotgr. 1611, has ‘Anthropomantie: Divination by the raising of dead men.’] Pretended divination by the entrails of men.

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1618.  in Holyday, Technogamia.

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1652.  Gaule, Magastrom., 367. Anthropomancy, or predicting by intrailes of men, women, children.

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1693.  Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xxv. Anthropomancy practised by the Roman emperor Heliogabalus.

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1731.  In Bailey; and in mod. Dicts.

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