teratoscopyn.
/tɛrəˈtɒskəpi/ rare.
Observation of or augury from prodigies.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [noun]
whatec1000
conjecturec1384
conjecturingc1384
augurya1413
augurationc1450
augurism1584
halsening1587
auguring1614
augurizing1652
conjectation1652
teratoscopy1665
prognostication1688
1665 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (ed. 2) 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.
1665 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (ed. 2) Pref. sig. A7v When the Sunshine of the Gospel hath discover'd the transparency of all those thin and curious Arts,..why should their contemporary, Teratoscopy, survive them all?
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