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Divination

Divination Meaning & Definition
Divination Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Divination?

[n] the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
[n] a prediction uttered under divine inspiration

Synonyms | Synonyms for Divination: foretelling | fortune telling | prophecy | soothsaying

Related Terms | Find terms related to Divination: alchemy | astrodiagnosis | astrology | astromancy | augury | bewitchery | charm | clairvoyance | crystal ball | crystal gazing | divining | enchantment | fetishism | fortunetelling | genethliacs | genethlialogy | glamour | gramarye | halomancy | haruspication | haruspicy | hoodoo | horoscopy | idolomancy | juju | jujuism | magic | mantic | mantology | natural magic | necromancy | obeah | onomancy | palmistry | palm-reading | pythonism | rune | shamanism | sorcery | sortes Biblicae | sortes Homericae | sortes Praenestinae | sortes Vergilianae | sortilege | spatulamancy | spell | spellbinding | spellcasting | spodomancy | stichomancy | sycomancy | sympathetic magic | thaumaturgia | thaumaturgics | thaumaturgism | thaumaturgy | theomancy | theurgy | vampirism | voodoo | voodooism | wanga | white magic | witchcraft | witchery | witchwork | wizardry | xylomancy | zoomancy

See Also | chirology | chiromancy | dowse | dowsing | forecasting | foretelling | geomancy | hydromancy | lithomancy | necromancy | onomancy | oracle | palm reading | palmistry | prediction | prognostication | prognostication | prophecy | pyromancy | rhabdomancy | vaticination

Divination In Webster's Dictionary

\Div`i*na"tion\, n. [L. divinatio, fr. divinare, divinatum, to foresee, foretell, fr. divinus: cf. F. divination. See {Divine}.] 1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. --Deut. xviii. 10. Note: Among the ancient heathen philosophers natural divination was supposed to be effected by a divine afflatus; artificial divination by certain rites, omens, or appearances, as the flight of birds, entrails of animals, etc. 2. An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come. --Sir T. North.

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