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Look up: Divination

  1. Divination
    To uncover the future or information from the Collective Unconsciousness by the use of certain tools, such as Tarot Cards, I Ching, Astrology, or Rune Stones. This can be on people, places, things and events past, present, and future. Divination is also used to find hidden things.
    Found on http://www.wiccancountess.com/wiccandict

  2. Divination
    Practices involving the interpretation of signs or symbols that seek to obtain oracular knowledge of events. Examples of divinatory practices are geomancy, tarot, I Ching, sortilege, and reading tea leaves.
    Found on http://www.psychics.co.uk/define/

  3. Divination
    Practices involving the interpretation of signs or symbols that seek to obtain oracular knowledge of events. Examples of divinatory practices are geomancy, tarot, I Ching, sortilege, and reading tea leaves.
    Found on http://www.mdani.demon.co.uk/para/paragl

  4. divination
    [n] - the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. divination
    Art of ascertaining future events or eliciting other hidden knowledge by supernatural or nonrational means. Divination played a large part in the ancient civilizations of the...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  6. Divination
    Div`i·na'tion noun [ Latin divinatio , from divinare , divinatum , to foresee, foretell, from divinus : confer French divination . See Divine .] 1. 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 . . . us ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/102

  7. divination
    foretelling noun the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Divination
    `Divination` is the attempt of ascertaining information by interpretation of omens or an alleged supernatural agency, either by or on behalf of a querent. If a distinction is to be made between divination and fortune-telling, divination has a formal or ritual and often social character, usually in a religious context; while fortune-telling is a more everyday practice for personal purposes. Divination is often dismissed by skeptics, including the...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination

  9. Divination
    • (n.) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. • (n.) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. divination
    the practice of determining the hidden significance or cause of events, sometimes foretelling the future, by various natural, psychological, and ... [32 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/58

  11. divination
    divination 1. The methods or practices of attempting to foretell the future or discovering the unknown through omens, oracles, or by supernatural powers. 2. A prophecy or prediction; soothsaying or augury. 3. A premonition or feeling of forboding about something that is going to happen. Divination refers to the methods or practices of attempting to fo...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  12. divination
    1. a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
    2. prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means

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  13. divination
    divination, practice of foreseeing future events or obtaining secret knowledge through communication with divine sources and through omens, oracles, signs, and portents. It is based on the belief in revelations offered to humans by the gods and in extrarational forms of knowledge; it attempts to mak...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0


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