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Soothsaying

noun

The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means. Synonyms: divination, foretelling, fortune telling.

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... went into swamps, and hidden among lofty lotus stems brought down with arrows wild birds, which circling in noisy flocks were as numerous as flies are. But even at those times ambitious thoughts did not desert him; so he turned the hunting into a kind of predicting or soothsaying. More than once, when he saw a flock of yellow geese upon the water, he drew his bow and said, "If I hit I shall be like Ramses ...

— The Pharaoh and the Priest - An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt • Boleslaw Prus

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Words linked to "Soothsaying" : palm reading, prophecy, pyromancy, fortune telling, chirology, arithmancy, prognostication, chiromancy, onomancy, lithomancy, oneiromancy, vaticination, rhabdomancy, divination, geomancy, foretelling, necromancy, hydromancy, dowsing, palmistry, dowse