Chiefly with reference to southern Africa: the action or practice of using bones in divination by studying the pattern they form when thrown on to…
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释义 | the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination from bones > [adjective] (2) bone-throwing1889 Chiefly with reference to southern Africa: the action or practice of using bones in divination by studying the pattern they form when thrown on to… bone-throwing1919 Of a person: that throws bones; spec. that practises divination by means of bones. Cf. bone-throwing, n. 2. |
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