English-Thai Dictionary

divination

N การ ทำนาย โชคชะตา  การ ทำนาย ดวงชะตา  kan-tam-nai-chok

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DIVINATION

n.[L., to foretell. See Divine. ] 1. The act of divining; a foretelling future events, or discovering things secret or obscure, by the aid of superior beings, or by other than human means. The ancient heathen philosophers divided divination into two kinds, natural and artificial. Natural divination was supposed to be effected by a kind of inspiration or divine afflatus; artificial divination was effected by certain rites, experiments or observations, as by sacrifices, cakes, flour, wine, observation of entrails, flight of birds, lots, verses, omens, position of the stars, etc.
2. Conjectural presage; prediction.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DIVINATION

Div `i *na "tion, n. Etym: [L. divinatio, fr. divinare, divinatum, to foresee, foretell, fr. divinus: cf. F. divination. See Divine. ]

 

1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that. .. useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. Deut. xviii. 1 .

 

Note: Among the ancient heathen philosophers natural divination was supposed to be effected by a divine afflatus; artificial divination by certain rites, omens, or appearances, as the flight of birds, entrails of animals, etc.

 

2. An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come. Sir T. North.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

divination

div i na tion |ˌdivəˈnāSHən ˌdɪvəˈneɪʃən | ▶noun the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means. DERIVATIVES di vin a to ry |diˈvinəˌtôrē |adjective ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin divinatio (n- ), from divinare ‘predict ’ (see divine 2 ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

divination

divination |ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means. DERIVATIVES divinatory adjective ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin divinatio (n- ), from divinare ‘predict ’ (see divine 2 ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

divination

divination noun he looked to divination for guidance: fortune telling, divining, prophecy, prediction, soothsaying, augury; clairvoyance, second sight.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

divination

divination noun she looked to divination for guidance when important decisions loomed: fortune telling, divining, foretelling the future, forecasting the future, prophecy, prediction, soothsaying, augury; clairvoyance, second sight; magic, sorcery, witchcraft, spell-working; rare vaticination, sortilege, auspication, witchery. WORD LINKS divination mantic, -mancy, relating to divination, as in geomancy, necromancy Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

Duden Dictionary

Divination

Di vi na ti on Substantiv, feminin bildungssprachlich , die |Divinati o n |die Divination; Genitiv: der Divination, Plural: die Divinationen lateinisch divinatio, zu: divinare = göttliche Eingebung haben Voraussage von Ereignissen die Gabe der Divination besitzen

 

French Dictionary

divination

divination n. f. nom féminin Prédiction. : La divination par le tarot est peu fiable.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

divination

div i na tion /dɪ̀vɪnéɪʃ (ə )n /名詞 U C 1 占い, 予言 .2 直感, 本能的予見 .