| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (I) Formation of Ideas | | Section VI. Extension of Thought |
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| NOUN: | PREDICTION, announcement; program or programme (plan) [See Plan]; premonition (warning) [See Warning]; prognosis, prognostic, presage, presagement, precurse [obs.], prophecy, vaticination, mantology [rare], prognostication, premonstration [obs.]; augury, auguration [obs.], ariolation [obs.], hariolation [obs.], foreboding, aboding [obs.], abode [obs.], bode [obs.], bodement, abodement; omniation [obs.], auspice (pl. auspices), forecast; omen [See Omen]; horoscope, nativity; sooth [obs.], soothsaying, fortune-telling; divination.
adytum, oak of Dodona; cave of the Cumæan Sibyl, Sibylline leaves, Sibylline books; tripod of the Pythia.
prefiguration, prefigurement; prototype, type.
[DIVINATION BY THE STARS] astrology, astromancy, horoscopy, genethlialogy, judicial or mundane astrology.
ORACLE, prophet, seer [See Oracle].
[MEANS OF DIVINATION] crystal, ink, tea leaves, cards; Hallowe’en -nuts, - mirror; divining-rod, wych-hazel or witch-hazel; hand of glory; wax image; teraphim; shadows 1; spell, charm [See Spell].
sorcery, magic, necromancy [See Sorcery]; heteroscopic divination. 2
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| VERB: | PREDICT, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn, prewarn [See Warning].
presage, augur, bode, abode [obs.], forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure, prefigurate, augurate [rare], ariolate [rare], figure [obs.], forecast, precurse, portend; preshow, foreshow, foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate [obs.], signify, point to.
hold out -, raise -, excite- -expectation, - hope; bid fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor [See Precursor].
HERALD, usher in, premise, announce; lower.
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| ADJECTIVE: | PREDICTING &c. v.; predictive, fatidic or fatidical, precursal, precurrent, presageful, vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent [rare], haruspical; Sibylline; weatherwise.
OMINOUS, portentous; augurous, augurial, augural, precursive, precursory, auspicial, auspicious; prescious [rare], prescient, monitory, extispicious [obs.], premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, big with the fate of.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not.—Macbeth
- Coming events cast their shadows before.—Campbell
- Dicamus bona verba.
- There buds the promise of celestial worth.—Young
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Note 1. The following terms, expressive of different forms of divination, have been collected from various sources, and are here given as a curious illustration of bygone superstitions:
Divination by oracles, theomancy; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts, psychomancy; by crystal gazing, crystallomancy; by shadows or manes, sciomancy; by appearances in the air, aëromancy, chaomancy; by the stars at birth, genethliacs; by meteors, meteoromancy; by winds, austromancy; by sacrificial appearances, aruspicy (or haruspicy), hieromancy, hieroscopy; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, extispicy, hieromancy; by the entrails of a human sacrifice, anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, pyromancy; by redhot iron, sideromancy; by the smoke from the altar, capnomancy; by mice, myomancy; by birds, orniscopy, ornithomancy; by a cock picking up grains, alectryomancy (or alectoromancy); by snakes, ophiomancy; by herbs, botanomancy; by water, hydromancy; by fountains, pegomancy; by a wand, rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes, crithomancy; by meal, aleuromancy, alphitomancy; by salt, halomancy; by lead, molybdomancy; by dice, cleromancy; by arrows, belomancy; by a balanced hatchet, axinomancy; by a balanced sieve, coscinomancy; by a suspended ring, dactyliomancy; by dots made at random on paper, geomancy; by precious stones, lithomancy; by pebbles, pessomancy; by pebbles drawn from a heap, psephomancy; by mirrors, catoptromancy; by writings in ashes, tephramancy; by dreams, oneiromancy; by the hand, palmistry, chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun’s rays, onychomancy; by finger rings, dactylomancy; by numbers, arithmancy; by drawing lots, sortilege; by passages in books, stichomancy; by the letters forming the name of the person, onomancy, nomancy; by the features, anthroposcopy; by the mode of laughing, geloscopy; by ventriloquism, gastromancy; by walking in a circle, gyromancy; by dropping melted wax into water, ceromancy; by currents, bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, œnomancy; by the shoulder blade, scapulimancy or scapulomancy, omoplatoscopy. [ back ]
Note 2. The following terms, expressive of different forms of divination, have been collected from various sources, and are here given as a curious illustration of bygone superstitions:
Divination by oracles, theomancy; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts, psychomancy; by crystal gazing, crystallomancy; by shadows or manes, sciomancy; by appearances in the air, aëromancy, chaomancy; by the stars at birth, genethliacs; by meteors, meteoromancy; by winds, austromancy; by sacrificial appearances, aruspicy (or haruspicy), hieromancy, hieroscopy; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, extispicy, hieromancy; by the entrails of a human sacrifice, anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, pyromancy; by redhot iron, sideromancy; by the smoke from the altar, capnomancy; by mice, myomancy; by birds, orniscopy, ornithomancy; by a cock picking up grains, alectryomancy (or alectoromancy); by snakes, ophiomancy; by herbs, botanomancy; by water, hydromancy; by fountains, pegomancy; by a wand, rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes, crithomancy; by meal, aleuromancy, alphitomancy; by salt, halomancy; by lead, molybdomancy; by dice, cleromancy; by arrows, belomancy; by a balanced hatchet, axinomancy; by a balanced sieve, coscinomancy; by a suspended ring, dactyliomancy; by dots made at random on paper, geomancy; by precious stones, lithomancy; by pebbles, pessomancy; by pebbles drawn from a heap, psephomancy; by mirrors, catoptromancy; by writings in ashes, tephramancy; by dreams, oneiromancy; by the hand, palmistry, chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun’s rays, onychomancy; by finger rings, dactylomancy; by numbers, arithmancy; by drawing lots, sortilege; by passages in books, stichomancy; by the letters forming the name of the person, onomancy, nomancy; by the features, anthroposcopy; by the mode of laughing, geloscopy; by ventriloquism, gastromancy; by walking in a circle, gyromancy; by dropping melted wax into water, ceromancy; by currents, bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, œnomancy; by the shoulder blade, scapulimancy or scapulomancy, omoplatoscopy. [ back ]
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