Divination meaning

dĭv'ə-nā'shən
The act or practice of trying to foretell the future or explore the unknown by occult means.
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A successful guess or intuitive perception.
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The definition of a divination is the practice of telling of the future or a prophecy.

An example of a divination is what a psychic does.

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A prophecy; augury.
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An inspired guess or presentiment.
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The pretended art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
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(uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
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(countable) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
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The art or act of foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by means of augury or an alleged supernatural agency.
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Something that has been divined.
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Origin of divination

  • From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio
    From Wiktionary

Divination Sentence Examples

  • to use divination: he made his arrows bright."

  • 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.

  • That they were employed in divination is consonant with the facts already noted.

  • 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.).

  • 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.

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