[f. Gr. σπασματο-, combining form of σπάσμα spasm + -MANCY.] (See quot. 1855.)
1855. Smedley, Occult Sciences, 296. Spasmatomancy … is properly a part of medicine, for it is the art of foretelling from convulsive twitchings of the limbs diseases by which a man is about to be attacked.
1885. Encycl. Brit., XIX. 4/2. The treatises also contain occasional digressions on … podoscopy, spasmatomancy, &c.
