Divination

n.	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. 10.
	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.

Noun	1.	divination - successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck
	2.	divination - a prediction uttered under divine inspiration Synonyms: prophecy
	3.	divination - the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means Synonyms: fortune telling, soothsaying, foretelling

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