In East and West alike there are oracular wells inhabited by spirits gifted with powers of divination.
Source: tatoeba (11559303)
Divination
//ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃən//
Synonyms for "divination" (80 found)
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75 translations across 27 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- μαντεία noun (act of divining)
- μαντεία noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
- μαντική noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
Bulgarian
4 entries- врачуване noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
- гадаене noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
- предсказване noun (act of divining)
- прогноза noun (indication of future, prediction)
Catalan
1 entries- endevinació noun (act of divining)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 卜卦 noun (act of divining)
- 卜筮 noun (act of divining)
- 占卜 noun (act of divining)
- 占卜術 noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
Czech
2 entries- věštba noun (act of divining)
- věštění noun (act of divining)
Ewe
1 entries- afakaka noun (act of divining)
Finnish
4 entries- ennustaminen noun (act of divining)
- ennustus noun (indication of future, prediction)
- kaivonkatsominen noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
- selvännäkeminen noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
French
1 entries- divination noun (act of divining)
Galician
1 entries- adivinación noun (act of divining)
German
2 entries- Wahrsagen noun (act of divining)
- Wahrsagerei noun (act of divining)
Greek
4 entries- μαντεία noun (act of divining)
- μαντεία noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
- μαντική noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
- προφητεία noun (indication of future, prediction)
Hungarian
3 entries- jövendölés noun (act of divining)
- jövendölés noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
- jövendölés noun (indication of future, prediction)
Indonesian
2 entries- ramal noun (act of divining)
- tenung noun (act of divining)
Irish
2 entries- fáistine noun (act of divining)
- fáistine noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
Italian
3 entries- divinazione noun (act of divining)
- divinazione noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
- oracolo noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
Japanese
1 entries- 占い noun (act of divining)
Korean
2 entries- 복점 noun (act of divining)
- 점 noun (act of divining)
Latin
2 entries- dīvīnātiō noun (act of divining)
- dīvīnātiō noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
Māori
3 entries- niu noun (act of divining)
- niu noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
- rata noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- فال noun (act of divining)
- كبزه noun (act of divining)
- كبزه noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
Polish
2 entries- wróżba noun (act of divining)
- wróżenie noun (act of divining)
Portuguese
2 entries- adivinhação noun (act of divining)
- divinação noun (act of divining)
Romanian
1 entries- divinație noun (act of divining)
Russian
4 entries- ворожба́ noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
- гада́ние noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
- предви́дение noun (act of divining)
- предсказа́ние noun (act of divining)
Spanish
4 entries- adivinación noun (act of divining)
- divinación (disused) noun (act of divining)
- divinación (disused) noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
- divinidad noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
Swahili
2 entries- ramli noun (act of divining)
- ramli noun (art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means)
Turkish
2 entries- kehanet noun (act of divining)
- önbili noun (act of divining)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Augury is divination based on the behavior of birds.
Source: tatoeba (11592852)
But Cicero does not seem even to have had a religious sentiment to cover the nakedness of his political opportunism. Not only does he in the Tusculan Disputations put aside in the Platonic fashion all the Homeric tales which anthropomorphize and discredit the gods; but in his treatise On Divination he shows an absolute disbelief in all the recognized practices, including the augury which he himself officially practised; and his sole excuse is that they are to be retained “on account of popular opinion and of their great public utility.”
Source: tatoeba (12115362)
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