| 单词 | divination |
| 释义 | divination (once / 3116 pages) n The idea that you can see the future by supernatural means is called divination. When your friend tells your fortune by reading the tea leaves in your cup, she claims to have the power of divination. The prediction or prophecy itself that's given through the act of fortune telling is also called divination. A psychic's divination that your aunt will soon start a family is much less impressive if your aunt is obviously pregnant. You can also use divination to refer to someone's unusual intuition, like a child who seems to know by divination when someone is feeling sad or upset. WORD FAMILYdivination: divinations+/divine: divination, divinatory, divined, divinely, diviner, divines, divinest, divining, diviningly, divinity/diviner: diviners/divinity: divinities USAGE EXAMPLESShe is a sentient being who grips the gilt-edged rim and stares into the ewer’s depths like a priestess awaiting divination from the gods. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) Perhaps a Gresham’s law of divination is at work, whereby the bad advice of soothsayers always chases out sounder counsel from more rational advisers. Economist(Nov 10, 2016) Ms. Phillips came into the house carrying “dowsing rods,” crooked rods that are traditionally used as divination tools for finding buried treasure or water. Wall Street Journal(Oct 27, 2016) 1n the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means Syn|Hypo|Hyper foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying arithmancy divination 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 prognostication, prophecy, vaticination knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) 2n a prediction uttered under divine inspiration Syn|Hypo|Hyper prophecy oracle a prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible forecasting, foretelling, prediction, prognostication a statement made about the future 3n successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck Hyper conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence |
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