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How to use divination in a sentence

The authors couple it with a new approach that, in essence, is a form of trained divination.

As I look into the bottom of my glass, darkly, I realize my powers of divination are limited.

For there shall be no more any vain visions, nor doubtful divination in the midst of the children of Israel.

I have mentioned them in speaking of Calchas, and of the contest between Calchas and Mopsus respecting their skill in divination.

According to the fable, the contest did not relate to skill in divination only, but also to sovereignty.

In Peru, for example, they were divided into classes, who made the various means of divination specialties.

Oneiromancy, divination by dreams, is still credited by old women of both sexes.

WITCH, WARLOCK, AND MAGICIANWILLIAM HENRY DAVENPORT ADAMS

Hydromancy, divination by water, in which the diviner showed the figure of an absent person.

WITCH, WARLOCK, AND MAGICIANWILLIAM HENRY DAVENPORT ADAMS

Onychomancy, or Onymancy, divination by means of the nails of an unpolluted boy.

WITCH, WARLOCK, AND MAGICIANWILLIAM HENRY DAVENPORT ADAMS

It could not have been a divination, therefore it must have been some obscure phenomenon of memory.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985