BIBLIOMANCY, a kind of divination performed by means of the Bible. This amounts to much the same with what is otherwise called sortes biblicæ or sortes sanctorum. It consisted in taking passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing indications thence concerning things future; as in Augustine's tolle et lege. It was much used at the consecration of bishops.—F. J. Davidius, a Jesuit, has published a bibliography under the borrowed name of Veridicus Christianus.