† ariolationn.
Obsolete.
Soothsaying, divination.In modern dictionaries.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > soothsaying > [noun]
spaeing?a1505
soothsaying1535
sooth1579
fatiloquy1623
ariolation1646
hariolating1655
hariolation1656
spae-craft1724
spae-work1815
soothsay1831
Sibyllism1875
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 11 Deluding their apprehensions, with Ariolation, South-saying, and such oblique Idolatries. View more context for this quotation
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 193 Vaticination..ariolation, praesagition.
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