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80 words match “DIVINATION”

CHAOMANCY n.
Divination by means of apperances in the air.
CHARTOMANCY n.
Divination by written paper or by cards.
CLEROMANCY n.
A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.
COSCINOMANCY n.
Divination by means of a suspended sieve.
CRITHOMANCY n.
A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.
CRYSTALLOMANCY n.
Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.
DACTYLIOMANCY n.
Divination by means of finger rings.
DAPHNOMANCY n.
Divination by means of the laurel.
DIVINATOR n.
One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner. [R.] Burton.
DIVINATORY a.
Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory instinct." Cowley.
DIVINE v.
To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.
DIVINEMENT n.
Divination. [Obs.]
DIVINER n.
One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2.
ENOPTOMANCY n.
Divination by the use of a mirror.
GASTROMANCY n. 2 definitions
A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach.
GELOSCOPY n.
Divination by means of laughter.
GENETHLIALOGY n.
Divination as to the destinies of one newly born; the act or art of casting nativities; astrology.
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.
GYROMANCY n.
A kind of divination performed by drawing a ring or circle, and walking in or around it. Brande & C.
HEPATOSCOPY n.
Divination by inspecting the liver of animals.
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