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51magic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sorcery; witchery, glamour, spell; legerdemain. adj. magic[al], mystic[al], occult; enchanting. See deception. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Occult] Syn. enchanted, enchanting, fascinating, charmed,… …
52oracle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. prophet, seer (see prediction). II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A revelation] Syn. commandment, edict, canon; see law 3 . 2. [A prophet] Syn. soothsayer, Cassandra, fortuneteller; see prophet . III (Roget s 3… …
53prediction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Foretelling the future Nouns 1. prediction, announcement; premonition, warning; prophecy, vaticination, prognosis, prognostication, premonstration; augury, auguration; foreboding, presentiment,… …
54prophecy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. prediction, prognosis, forecast, augury, divination. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. prediction, prognostication, prescience, augury; see divination . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. prediction, foretelling …
55vision — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sense of sight Nouns 1. vision, sight, optics, eyesight, seeing; view, look, espial, glance, ken; glimpse, glimmer, peep, coup d oeil; focus; gaze, stare, leer; perception, contemplation; regard, survey; …
56soothsaying — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Something that is foretold by or as if by supernatural means: divination, oracle, prophecy, vaticination, vision. See FORESIGHT …
57Prediction — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Prediction >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 prediction prediction announcement Sgm: N 1 program program programme &c.(plan) 626 Sgm: N 1 premonition premonition &c.(warning) 668 Sgm: N 1 prognosis prognosis …
58vates — 1620s, poet or bard, specifically Celtic divinely inspired poet (1728), from L. vates sooth sayer, prophet, seer, cognate with O.Ir. faith poet, Welsh gwawd poem, O.E. wod mad, frenzied (see WOOD (Cf. wood) (adj.)). Hence vaticination oracular… …
59vaticinate — [va tɪsɪneɪt] verb rare foretell the future. Derivatives vaticinal adjective vaticination noun vaticinator noun vaticinatory adjective Origin C17: from L. vaticinat , vaticin …
60augury — n. 1. Prognostication, soothsaying, prediction, prophecy, vaticination. 2. Omen, sign, auspice, portent, presage, prognostic, precursor, forerunner, harbinger, herald …
