By coscinomancy, most religiously observed of old amidst the ceremonies of the ancient Romans. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
As for magic, necromancy, pyromancy, geomancy, coscinomancy, and all the other mancies -- there was then a whole literature about them. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Lectures and Essays] Reference
A mode of divination much in vogue in New England as in Old. Called also “sieve and shears” or “riddle and shears”: the learned name is coscinomancy. From Wordnik.com. ["Letter of Thomas Brattle, F. R. S., 1692"; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706] Reference
Asus eee pc, boiled asses' heads, cephalonomancy, chair-throwing, coscinomancy, gnu/linux, linux journal. From Wordnik.com. [Of Microsoft, GNU/Linux and Boiled Asses' Heads] Reference
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