Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GAS'TRO-MAN-CY
GAS'TRO-MAN-CY, n. [Gr. γαστηρ, belly, and μαντεια, divination.]
A kind of divination among the ancients by means of words seeming to be uttered from the belly. Encyc.
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