Word Meanings - DIVINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: DIVINATION
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIVINATION)
- Augury
- Prophecy
- prediction
- divination
- conjecture
- omen
- prognostication
- Conjecture guest
- hypothesis
- theory
- notion
- surmise
- supposition
- Sorcery
- Magic
- enchantment
- witchcraft
- glamour
- possession
- Vaticination
- augury
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIVINATION)
Related words: (words related to DIVINATION)
- RECKON
reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the - RECKONER
One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden. - MAGIC; MAGICAL
1. Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency. 2. Performed by, or proceeding from, occult and superhuman agencies; done - SURMISE
surmis, to impose, accuse; sur + mettre to put, set, L. 1. A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy. double honor gain From his surmise proved - COMPUTATION
1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate; - CONJECTURER
One who conjectures. Hobbes. - MAGICALLY
In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic. - POSSESSIONER
1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., - SORCERY
Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment. Adder's wisdom I have learned, To fence my ear against thy sorceries. Milton. (more info) - PROOF-PROOF
Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley. - NOTIONATE
Notional. - WITCHCRAFT
1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits. 2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak. - CALCULATION
1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle. 2. An expectation based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of - PREDICTIONAL
Prophetic; prognostic. - POSSESSIONARY
Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession. - CONJECTURE
An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing - THEORY
1. A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation. Note: "This word is employed by English writers in a very loose and improper sense. It is with them usually - GUEST
gust, Icel gestr, Sw. gäst, Dan. Gjäst, Goth. gast, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, 1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained - VATICINATION
Prediction; prophecy. It is not a false utterance; it is a true, though an impetuous, vaticination. I. Taylor. - PROOF
A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet. (more info) 1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. - MISCOMPUTATION
Erroneous computation; false reckoning. - SELF-REPROOF
The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment. - VORTEX THEORY
The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid. - HIGH-PROOF
1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak. - PLOT-PROOF
Secure against harm by plots. Shak. - DINGDONG THEORY
The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first - GERM THEORY
The theory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs. Cf. Biogenesis, Abiogenesis. 2. The theory which attributes contagious and infectious diseases, suppurative lesions, etc., to the agency of germs. - DISPROOF
A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers. - DEAD-RECKONING
See A - BULLET-PROOF
Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.