Divination

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The art or act of foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by means of augury or an alleged supernatural agency.
  • n. An inspired guess or presentiment.
  • n. Something that has been divined.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
  • n. The pretended art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
  • n. An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
  • n. An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of divining; the pretended art of foretelling by supernatural or magical means that which is future, or of discovering that which is hidden or obscure.
  • n. Figuratively, a sort of instinctive prevision; a presentiment and knowledge of a future event or events; conjectural presage: omen.
  • n. In anc. Rom. law: A transaction in a criminal suit, in which one of several accusers of one and the same person was chosen as the chief prosecutor in the case, the others joining in it only as subscribers.
  • n. The speech or oration asking authority to fill such a rôle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck
  • n. the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
  • n. a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
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    conjecture    surmisal    guess    supposition    speculation    hypothesis    surmise   
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