axinomantia

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

axīnŏmantīa, ae, f., = ἀξινομαντεία,

a kind of divination from axes , Plin. 36, 19, 34, § 142; cf. id. 30, 2, 5, § 14.