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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An ancient kind of divination for the detection of crime by means of an ax or axes. One form consisted in poising an ax on a bar, and repeating the names of persons suspected. If the ax moved at the name of any one, he was pronounced guilty. For auother form, see extract.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet. Including:
  2. n. Divination by saws. Almost certainly an error, there is only one citation of its use, and those who copied it.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet.

Etymologies

  1. Latin axinomantia, from Ancient Greek ἀξινομαντεία. (Wiktionary)

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