rare. [f. Gr. τέρας, τερατ- marvel, prodigy + -οκαπια observation.] Observation of or augury from prodigies.
1663. J. Spencer, Prodigies (1665), Pref. When the Sunshine of the Gospel hath discovered the transparency of all those thin and curious Arts,… why should their contemporary, Teratoscopy, survive them all? Ibid., 298. Teratoscopy … was anciently only a rational attendance to those … signs with which the Providence of Nature … was noted to preface her works of greater note.
