divination
11Divination — Divination, lat., mit deus, Gott, zusammenhängend, heißt die Deutung von Zeichen, durch welche nach dem Glauben der Alten die Götter den Menschen Warnungen und Winke über die Zukunft zukommen ließen. Cicero behandelte die verschiedenen Arten der… …
12divination — index deduction (conclusion), premonition, recognition Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
13divination — is an act which tries to foretell the future or discover the origin of a situation usually of a calamity or illness. It does this through the consultation of an oracle or deity by a religious specialist, the diviner …
14divination — [n] fortune telling augury, clairvoyancy, horoscopy, occultism, palmistry, prediction, premonition, prognostication, prophecy, soothsaying; concepts 70,278,689 …
15divination — ► NOUN ▪ the practice of seeking knowledge of the future of the unknown by supernatural means. DERIVATIVES divinatory adjective …
16divination — [div΄ə nā′shən] n. [ME divinacioun < L divinatio < divinatus, pp. of divinare: see DIVINE] 1. the act or practice of trying to foretell the future or explore the unknown by occult means 2. a prophecy; augury 3. a successful guess or… …
17divination — divinatory /di vin euh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj. /div euh nay sheuhn/, n. 1. the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means. 2. augury; prophecy: The divination of the high priest… …
18Divination — This article is about divination as a whole. For the numerous varieties of divination, see Methods of divination. For other uses, see Divination (disambiguation). This man in Rhumsiki, Cameroon, supposedly tells the future by interpreting the… …
19DIVINATION — Man, by nature, longs to know what the future holds for him, either out of inherent curiosity or in order to anticipate the dangers that await him. Therefore, in all ancient civilizations and even in some cultures of today there were diviners who …
20Divination — Réflexions du Soleil sous les nuages, au crépuscule La divination est l art occulte de découvrir ce qui est inconnu : l avenir, le caché, le passé, les trésors, les maladies invisibles, les secrets, les mystères..., et cela par des moyens… …
