Obs. Also tiro-. [ad. F. tyromantie (Rabelais), f. Gr. τῡρός cheese: see -MANCY.] Divination by means of cheese.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., xix. 166. Tyromancy [mispr. Typomancy], [divining] by the coagulation of cheese.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tiromantie.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xxv. To have the truth … more fully … disclosed … by Tyromancy, whereof we make some Proof in a great Brehemont Cheese.
