augury
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Not a whit, we defie Augury; there's a speciall Prouidence in the fall of a sparrow.
From Hamlet by Shakespeare, William
Augury was a mode of ascertaining the divine will in respect to questions of expediency or duty, by means of certain prognostications and signs.
From Romulus Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
Geomancy, Augury, Divination, 250;various kinds of divination; cards, the palm, the rod, &c.,
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Mackay, Charles
Augury Number 2, he thought, as the long, soft tapering fingers slipped into his.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Mitford, Bertram
The most notable of these vaticinations was "the Augury of the Hogs", Page 324 which he practised by the advice of a certain Jewish magician.
From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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