sortilegyn.
/sɔːˈtɪlədʒi//ˈsɔːtɪlɛdʒi/ 1. Divination by the casting or drawing of lots or otherwise; = sortilege n.1 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun]
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > casting of lots, sortilege > [noun]
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 411 Oft gyled was this brood,..For Merlyns prophecie, And ofte for sortelogie [v.r. sortelegie].
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiii. xxix. 336 The Aegyptians iuggling witchcraft or sortilegie.
1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 269 He had by his sortilegy, or rather sorcery, found out his lucky day.
1840 T. De Quincey Mod. Superstition in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 560/2 That mode of Sortilegy which is conducted by throwing open priviledged books at random.
1883 J. Payn Thicker than Water xxviii Miss Blithers the elder, who believed in sortilegy, presented her with a tract, drawn at random from a whole sheaf of them.
2. An act or instance of this; = sortilege n.1 2.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > choosing by casting lots
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1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §18. 39 Even in sortilegies and matters of greatest uncertainty, there is a setled and preordered course of effects. View more context for this quotation
1656 S. Holland Don Zara i. v. 38 When that venerable Quack sold his Brethrens lives (by a Sortiligie) to save his own.
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