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divination::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying |
| Type of | vaticination, prognostication, prophecy |
| Has types | onomancy, chirology, chiromancy, dowse, dowsing, geomancy, hydromancy, lithomancy, necromancy, oneiromancy, arithmancy, palm reading, palmistry, pyromancy, rhabdomancy |
| Derivation | divine |
divination::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | prophecy |
| Type of | forecasting, foretelling, prediction, prognostication |
| Has types | oracle |
| Derivation | divine |
divination::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | speculation, surmisal, supposition, surmise, hypothesis, conjecture, guess |
Examples of divination
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Divination is popular to help pagans gain insight about their pasts and futures.
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He also wrote extensively on issues of the first born, kingship, and divination.
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This cycle was used for divination purposes, it foretold lucky and unlucky days.
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This lama performed a divination using two arrows and prayer, Tsegyal recalled.
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Elaborate systems of divination and fortune-telling date back to ancient times.
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Choosing the set list has become a kind of divination of the environment and mood.
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The oldest known use of writing in China was in divination in the royal court.
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Nonetheless, this did not mean he or other Roman rulers disfavored divination.
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He was devoted to divination and allowed his subjects to freely practice this art.
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- Successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck
- Prophecy: a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
- The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
- (divinatory) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
- (divinatory) conjectural: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"
- (diviner) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers
- Divination (from Latin divinare "to foresee, to be inspired by a god" , related to divinus, divine) is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of a standardized process or ritual. ...
- "Divinations" is the first single and second track from Mastodon's fourth studio album Crack the Skye. It was released on January 27, 2009 through iTunes, as well as a special packaging that can only be ordered from the band's website. The song featured in the game Madden 10.
- Diviner is an infrared sensing instrument aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, part of the Lunar Precursor Robotic Program which is studying the moon. ...
