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An American Indian game analogous to dice, probably originally a method of divination.

Divination by examining the soles of the feet.

Divination by fountains. [R.]

Divination by means of fire.

Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch. Bp. Hall.

Divination by means of rods or wands. [Written also rhabdomancy.] Sir T. Browne.

Divination by means of verses.

Divination by means of shadows.

Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning. Craig.

f events; the art or practice of making predictions. A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. Acts xvi. 16.

Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment. Adder's wisdom I have learned, To fence my ear against thy sorceries. Milton.

A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots. Sortes Homericæ or Virgilianæ Etym: [L., Homeric or Virgilian lots], a form of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in taking the first passage on which the eye fell, upon opening a volume of Homer or Virgil, or a passage drawn from an urn which several wer…

The act or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots. A woman infamous for sortileges and witcheries. Sir W. Scott.

Divination by means of ashes.

Relating to spodomancy, or divination by means of ashes. C. Kingsley.

Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.

Divination by writing on the bark of a tree.

Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.

A kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles among heathen nations.

Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination. Fal. There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with me; but she's gone. Sim. Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of Brentford Shak.