[ad. mod.L. arithmomantīa, f. Gr. ἀριθμός number + -μαντεία divination. Cf. Fr. arithmomancie.] Divination by numbers; arithmancy.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. IV. Fulks Arithmomantia and the rest of those curious games.
1660. Stanley, Hist. Philos., 384/2. Upon the near affinity which Pythagoras conceived to be betwixt the gods and numbers, he collected a kind of Arithmomanty.