| 词汇 | divination |
| 释义 | divination noun[ U ] uk /ˌdɪv.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌdɪv.əˈneɪ.ʃən/ the skill or act of saying or discovering what will happen in the future占卜，算命 Predicting things and intuition augur augury bellwether betcha bode horizon scanning hunch inkling instinct intuit premonition premonitory presage prescience prescient telepathy there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom unforeseeable unintuitively unreasoning You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Extrasensory perception & telepathy Another form of divination which they employ for the same purpose is to put the question to the ghost, while two men hold a bow which belonged to him and to which some personal articles of his are attached. He is supposed to have been well versed in the arts of divination and astrology, and was the origin of the Persian magi. If the woman had no such dream, it fell to the father or the relatives to determine the name by divination or by consulting a wizard. It needed little divination on her part to guess what the words might have been. Visitors are there in plenty, but their object is to "get luck," and the business of religion has become transformed into divination and spiritual gambling. Examples of divinationdivination The prerequisite for good judgement in matters of the external world, and the divination of falsehood, is a knowledge and examination of the soul. Unlike prognostics, which simply provide information to correlate natural phenomena and human activities, divinations require action, usually the manipulation of numbers, to answer a question. These are two groups of three works, the first on alchemy,46 the second on divination. At the end of the quire, on originally blank leaves, two scribes have added brief notes on indulgences and feasts, and an alphabetic divination (40). The shape of copper money, chess boards, divination boards, and the decoration of bronze mirrors all reflected this idea. This is no divination but is a natural thing in creation. But intuition is a very tricky faculty in the fields of science and mathematics, for it essentially means divination. The series of practices occurring during the nine days of the festival are strictly regulated by tradition and divination. He connects the grammar of divination with its rhetorical structures. Throughout both sides of the theory two methods are in operation, divination and comparison. I am therefore inclined to believe that the act of scattering seeds performed by the sowing priests could be a divination ritual. But precisely this nonrelevance does not make one revise one's beliefs in the general framework of this institution of divination. As such it is, as expected, studded with dates as well as many anecdotal illustrations of the role of mediums, of divinations, # and of traditional religion. Schleiermacher is concerned with knowing as much as possible about the author and speaks of ' divination ' as a method of knowing the author's mind. The interpretation of a misfortune is in fact carried out either spontaneously by individuals or by means of the institution of divination, which provides only causal inferences, not remedies. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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