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divination

n.

augury, interpretation of omens, prediction, soothsaying, sorcery, calculation, foretelling, foreshadowing, palmistry, prognostics, prognostication, clairvoyance, prophecy, extrasensory perception, ESP, spirit-rapping, table-tipping, thaumaturgy, horoscopy, penetration, intimation, portent, insight, warning, fortunetelling, phrenology, astrology, graphology, tea-leaf reading, hieromancy, necromancy, hydromancy, ichthyomancy, pyromancy, crystal gazing, crystallomancy, sciomancy, ornithomancy, ophiomancy, dactyliomancy, Bibliomancy, anthropomancy, alectryomancy, catoptromancy, psephomancy, alphitomancy, lithomancy, oneiromancy, chiromancy, aeromancy, rhabdomancy, cleromancy, aleuromancy, axinomancy, belomancy, haruspicy, genethliacs, dowsing, Ouija board (trademark), casting the planchette, I Ching; see also forecast.

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Another word for divination

noun

Something that is foretold by or as if by supernatural means:

oracle, prophecy, soothsaying, vaticination, vision. See foresight

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Physiognomy was regarded by those who cultivated it as a twofold science: (r) a mode of discriminating character by the outward appearance, and (2) a method of divination from form and feature.
We are justified in concluding, therefore, that among the Greeks and Romans likewise the examination of the liver was the basis of divination in the case of the sacrificial animal.
To use divination: he made his arrows bright."
As man approached the gods in sacrifice and prayers, so too the gods declared themselves to men by divers signs and tokens, which it was possible to read by the art of Divination (q.v.).
Amongst his scientific, theological and grammatical works mention may be made of De diis, containing an examination of various cults and ceremonials; treatises on divination and the interpretation of dreams; on the sphere, the winds and animals.

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