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divination | extispicious |

As a noun divination

is (uncountable) the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.

As an adjective extispicious is

(rare) pertaining to divination by examining entrails.

divination

English

(wikipedia divination)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
  • The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
  • (countable) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * star divination

    Related terms

    * divine * predivination

    See also

    * (Methods of divination) ----

    extispicious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Pertaining to divination by examining entrails.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.11:
    • Thus hath he deluded many Nations in his Augurial and Extispicious inventions, from casual and uncontrived contingencies divining events succeeding.
  • * 2010 , Louise Pattern, Bad Money , p. 113:
    • Spider had even laughed out loud when Guy chipped in with one of his obscure jokes. 'Given the amount of offal he got through, one might say that he was extispicious .'