[ad. L. axīnomantīa, a. Gr. ἀξῑνομαντεία, f. ἀξΐνη ax + μαντεία divination.] Divination by means of an ax-head.
1601. Holland, Pliny, Gloss., Axinomantie, a kind of magicke diuination by an ax head red hot.
1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xxv. To have the truth … disclosed … by axinomancy: we want only a hatchet and a jet-stone to be laid together upon a fire of hot embers.
1870. Archæol., XLIII. 517.
