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单词 omination
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ominationn.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin omination-, ominatio.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin omination-, ominatio prognostication, foretelling by omens (in an 8th-cent. epitome) < classical Latin ōmināt- , past participial stem of ōminārī (see ominate v.) + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare slightly earlier ominate v.
Obsolete.
A foreboding, a prognostication; (Rhetoric) a speech or text prophesying evil.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] > act or action
tokeningc888
omination1589
portending1590
portention1617
portendment1626
portendance1644
augury1654
preomination1660
omening1796
1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. Li Ominatio, when we doe shew & foretell what shall hereafter come to passe, which we gather by some likely signes.]
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi[i]. 124 If any other man by triall happen vpon a better omination.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 265 Nor was the same [falling of Salt] a generall prognosticke of future evill among the ancients, but a particular omination concerning the breach of friendship. View more context for this quotation
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Num. xviii. 12) 36 Adding happy ominations and gratulations.
1665 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (ed. 2) 102 Ominations by Words, Names, Places, Times, in so many several Chapters full of elaborate vanity.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Omination, prognostick.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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