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Divination   /dˌɪvənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Divination

noun
1.
Successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck.
2.
A prediction uttered under divine inspiration.  Synonym: prophecy.
3.
The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means.  Synonyms: foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying.



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"Divination" Quotes from Famous Books



... have I to do with his dreams or his divination? Body o' me, this is a trick to defer signing the conveyance. I warrant the devil will tell him in a dream that he must not part with his estate. But I'll bring him a parson to tell him that the devil's a liar: —or if that won't do, I'll bring a lawyer that shall out-lie ...
— Love for Love • William Congreve
... other chariots, under awnings of purple or of yellow silk. Then came the brehons, the great judges of the land, and the chief bards of the high court of Tara, and the Druids, crowned with oak leaves, and carrying wands of divination ...
— Irish Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy
... that are appointed only to learning, yet all in childhood be instructed therein; and the more part do bestow in learning their spare hours. In the course of the stars and movings of the heavenly sphere they be expert, but for the deceitful divination thereof they never dreamed ...
— The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics • Various
... episodes, though his paradises are enormous panoramas replete with architectural beauties. His figures, as exemplified in Miltonic illustrations, are more conventional than Fuseli's and never naively original as are Blake's. Indeed, of Blake's mystic poetry and divination Martin betrays no trace. He is not so much the seer as the inventor of infernal harmonies. Satan reviewing his army of devils is truly magnificent in its depiction of the serried host armed for battle; behind glistens burning ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker
... spinners be tokens of divination, and of knowing what weather shall fall—for oft by weathers that shall fall, some spin or weave higher or lower. Also multitude of spinners is token of ...
— A Book of Myths • Jean Lang


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