| 单词 | vaticination |
| 释义 | vaticination (once / 63545 pages) n WORD FAMILY vaticination: vaticinations+/vaticinate: vaticinated, vaticinates, vaticinating, vaticination, vaticinator/vaticinator: vaticinators USAGE EXAMPLESFor the rest, you will be tired of hearing that, for vaticination, you, to excess, simplify. James, Henry, The Letters of Henry James (volume...(2012) Vaticination, if we are to believe George Eliot, is only one of the innumerable forms in which ignorance finds expression. Various, Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4,...(2012) Everybody knows the description given by Virgil of the Cumaean sybil at the moment of vaticination: "The god, the god, she cried," etc. Sabatier, Auguste, Outlines of a Philosophy of Religio...(2012) n knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) Syn|Hypo|Hyper prognostication, prophecy crystal gazing staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events divination, foretelling, fortune telling, soothsayingthe art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means arithmancydivination by means of numbers dowse, dowsing, rhabdomancysearching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod geomancydivination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another) hydromancydivination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides) lithomancydivination by means of stones or stone talismans necromancyconjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying oneiromancydivination through the interpretation of dreams onomancydivination by the letters of a name chirology, chiromancy, palm reading, palmistrytelling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand pyromancydivination by fire or flames anticipation, prediction, prevision the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) |
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