Divination by an axe; much practised by the ancient Greeks with a view of discovering crime. An agate was placed on a redhot axe, and indicated the guilty person by its motion. (Greek, axʹinē manteia.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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