Tyromancy:
[ad. F. tyromantie (Rabelais), f. Gr. turos, cheese: see -MANCY.]
Divination by means of cheese.
1652 GAULE Magastrom. xix. 166 Tyromancy [mispr. Typomancy], [divining] by the coagulation of cheese. 1656 BLOUNT
Glossogr., Tiromantie. a1693 Urquhart's Rabelais III. xxv, To have the truth..more fully..disclosed..by Tyromancy, whereof we make some Proof in a great Brehemont Cheese.
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