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teratoscopy rare.|tɛrəˈtɒskəpɪ|
[f. Gr. τέρας, τερατ- marvel, prodigy + -σκοπια observation.]
Observation of or augury from prodigies.
1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) Pref., When the Sun⁓shine of the Gospel hath discovered the transparency of all those thin and curious Arts,..why should their contemporary, Teratoscopy, survive them all? Ibid. 298 Teratoscopy..was anciently only a rational attendance to those..signs with which the Providence of Nature..was noted to preface her works of greater note. |