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单词 bird-divination
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bird-divination
(a) Modifying agent nouns and nouns of action, designating a person who divines by means of the flights and calls of birds, or designating divination by means of this, as in bird-conjurer, bird-diviner, bird-divination, †bird-speller, etc. Obsolete. Cf. birdgazer n. at Compounds 2a and birdwatcher n. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by birds, augury > [noun] > one who practises
bird-conjurera1382
bird-speller1571
birdgazer1576
birdwatcher1712
orneoscopist1727
orniscopist1755
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by birds, augury > [noun]
augurya1413
augurationc1450
ornomancyc1500
auspice1533
auspicy1603
alectromancy1652
ornithomancy1652
alectryomancy1658
bird-divination1670
orneoscopics1727
orniscopics1775
ornithoscopy1840
orniscopy1890
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxvii. 9 Sweueneres, and brid deuyneres.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. xviii. 14 Þes gentylis..brid coniurers & dyuynours heeryn.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xiv. 4) Birdspellers and other heathen soothsayers.
1670 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. II iii. 68 Now this Bird-divination was gathered chiefly by the flying or singing of Birds.
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