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noun

Divination n.

The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. "There shall not be found among you any one that... useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter." Note: Among the ancient heathen philosophers natural divination was supposed to be effected by a divine afflatus; artificial divination by certain rites, omens, or appearances, as the flight of birds, entrails of animals, etc.

An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. "Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come."

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... I was beginning, half placated at the apparent flattery, but stopped with a sudden divination of her meaning. "You think me a ...

— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine

... and consideration and tact, and to the sympathy that was real sympathy in that it was understanding. They did nothing they thought ought to be done for us, according to their standards, but they did what they divined we waited to be done for us, while their divination was most successful. It would be impossible to enumerate the hundreds of little acts of consideration they performed during the few days of our intercourse. Let it suffice for me to say that of all hospitality ...

— The Cruise of the Snark • Jack London

... is of himself so strong in person as twenty men, he is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages, he have still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymology imply, the divination by the dead, and all the dead that he can come nigh to are for him at command; he is brute, and more than brute; he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not; he can, within his range, direct the elements, the storm, the fog, the thunder; he can command all the meaner things, the rat, and ...

— Dracula • Bram Stoker

... comprised a large number who were skilled in astrology and divination. The great temple of Mexico, alone, had 5,000 priests in attendance, of whom the chief dignitaries superintended the dreadful rites of human sacrifice. Others had management of the singing choirs with their musical accompaniment of drums and other instruments; ...

— The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West • Robert E. Anderson

... at prediction," said Potemkin, with a smile, "but I have a method of divination far more infallible. My prediction is that I will have the town ...

— Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

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