Divination: alternatives and connections

Divination by means of numbers.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or writ…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Divination by means of water, -- practiced by the ancients.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Divination by means of stones.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantm…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Divination by means of dreams.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Divination by the letters of a name; nomancy.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or bat…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Divination by means of fire.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Same as Rabdomancy.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

of Foretell

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

The act of speculating.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Surmise.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Prediction; prophecy.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Alt. of Prophetical

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Alt. of Prophetical

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

of Foretell

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

A true saying; truth.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.