Definition of divination

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Divination (n.) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.

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Geomancy :: Geomancy (n.) A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper..
Onomancy :: Onomancy (n.) Divination by the letters of a name; nomancy.
Stichometrical :: Stichomancy (n.) Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard..
Onychomancy :: Onychomancy (n.) Divination by the nails.
Lecanomancy :: Lecanomancy (n.) divination practiced with water in a basin, by throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was sought..
Alomancy :: Alomancy (n.) Divination by means of salt.
Wise :: Wise (v.) Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination..
Rhapsodomancy :: Rhapsodomancy (n.) Divination by means of verses.
Pythoness :: Pythoness (n.) Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch.
Hepatoscopy :: Hepatoscopy (n.) Divination by inspecting the liver of animals.
Ophiomancy :: Ophiomancy (n.) Divination by serpents, as by their manner of eating, or by their coils..
Al-phitomancy :: Al-phitomancy (n.) Divination by means of barley meal.
#NAME? :: -mancy () A combining form denoting divination; as, aleuromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, etc..
Capnomancy :: Capnomancy (n.) Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke.
Tephramancy :: Tephramancy (n.) Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
Chartomancy :: Chartomancy (n.) Divination by written paper or by cards.
Alectryomancy :: Alectryomancy (n.) Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten..
Cleromancy :: Cleromancy (n.) A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.
Divinement :: Divinement (n.) Divination.
Gastromancy :: Gastromancy (n.) A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art..
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