"gastromancy" meaning in English

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          "text": "1693 Urquhart translating Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv.\nBy Gastromancy, which kind of ventral Fatiloquency was for a long time together used in Ferrara by Lady Giacoma Rodogina, the Eugastrimythian Prophetess."
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