"coscinomancy" meaning in English

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          "text": "1603 Christopher Heydon A Defence of Ivdiciall Astrolgie\nAnd as for Hydromancie, and Choschinomancie, they could vanish as superfluous, as were evident and ridiculous even to the ignorant."
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          "text": "1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv.\nBy Coscinomancy, most religiously observed of old, amidst the Ceremonies of the ancient Romans. Let us have a Sieve and Shiers, and thou shalt see Devils."
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          "text": "1913 Halliday Greek Div. x.\nTo the same species of divinatory rites [i.e. those involving a swinging pendulum] belong the koskinomancy of Theokritos, familiar in England as the consultation of the sieve and shears, and the minor rites of axinomancy and sphondylomancy."
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          "word": "choschinomancy"
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          "word": "coskinomancy"
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          "word": "koskinomancy"
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          "word": "cosinomancy"
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          "word": "coskiomancy"
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