Definition for Divination:

• is a " foretelling future events, or discovering things secret by the aid of superior beings, or other than human means." It is used in Scripture of false systems of ascertaining the divine will. It has been universal in all ages, and all nations alike civilized and savage. Numerous forms of divination are mentioned, such as divination by rods, ( Hosea 4:12 ) divination by arrows, ( Ezekiel 21:21 ) divination by cups, ( Genesis 44:5 ) consultation of teraphim, ( 1 Samuel 15:23 ; Ezekiel 21:21 ; Zechariah 10:2 ) [ TERAPHIM]; divination by the liver, ( Ezekiel 21:21 ) divination by dreams, ( deuteronomy 13:2 deuteronomy 13:3 ; Judges 7:13 ; Jeremiah 23:32 ) consultation of oracles. ( Isaiah 41:21-24 ; 44:7 ) Moses forbade every species of divination, because a prying into the future clouds the mind with superstition, and because it would have been an incentive to idolatry. But God supplied his people with substitutes for divination which would have rended it superfluous, and left them in no doubt as to his will in circumstances of danger, had they continued faithful. It was only when they were unfaithful that the revelation was withdrawn. ( 1 Samuel 28:6 ; 2 Samuel 2:1 ; 5:23 ) etc. Superstition not unfrequently goes hand in hand with skepticism, and hence, amid the general infidelity prevalent throughout the Roman empire at our Lords coming, imposture was rampant. Hence the lucrative trade of such men as Simon Magus, ( Acts 8:9 ) Bar-jesus, ( Acts 13:6 ) the slave with the spirit of Python, ( Acts 16:16 ) the vagabond jews, exorcists, ( Luke 11:19 ; Acts 19:13 ) and others, ( 2 Timothy 3:13 ; Revelation 19:20 ) etc., as well as the notorious dealers in magical books at Ephesus. ( Acts 19:19 )

Synonyms for Divination:

• n.

  •
  • medium,
  • channel,
  • clairvoyant.
  •
  • foresight.
  •augury (noun)
  • table tipping,
  • Aleuromancy,
  • prognostics,
  • phrenology,
  • ESP,
  • rhabdomancy,
  • Ichthyomancy,
  • crystal gazing,
  • interpretation of omens,
  • Dactyliomancy,
  • tea-leaf reading,
  • Graphology,
  • extrasensory perception,
  • dowsing,
  • warning,
  • portent,
  • Bibliomancy,
  • Belomancy,
  • Alphitomancy,
  • Alectryomancy,
  • Haruspicy,
  • Hieromancy,
  • Oneiromancy,
  • chiromancy,
  • Aeromancy,
  • pyromancy,
  • Ornithomancy,
  • Anthropomancy,
  • Sciomancy,
  • Cleromancy,
  • Catoptromancy,
  • I Ching,
  • Ophiomancy,
  • Crystallomancy,
  • intimation,
  • spirit rapping,
  • hydromancy,
  • clairvoyance,
  • palmistry,
  • lithomancy,
  • casting the planchette,
  • psephomancy,
  • Genethliacs,
  • Axinomancy.
  •belief (noun)
  • notion,
  • thesis.
  •black magic (noun)
  • voodoo.
  •communication (noun)
  • divination.
  •crystal ball (noun)
  • forward looks,
  • envisagements,
  • preveniences.
  •extrasensory perception (noun)
  • sixth sense.
  •forecast (noun)
  • fore-casts,
  • fore-sight,
  • pre-cognition,
  • fore thought,
  • pre visions,
  • fore tokens,
  • out-looks,
  • fore casts,
  • pre-vision,
  • foreseeings,
  • fore-seeing,
  • out look,
  • fore seeing,
  • fore knowledges,
  • fore-knowledge,
  • fore thoughts,
  • fore-thoughts,
  • fore-thought,
  • pre-cognitions,
  • fore-seeings,
  • out looks,
  • out-look,
  • pre cognition,
  • fore knowledge,
  • fore-knowledges,
  • fore token,
  • pre science,
  • fore-sights,
  • pre sciences,
  • fore-tokens,
  • fore-token,
  • pre-sciences,
  • pre cognitions,
  • pre vision,
  • fore sight,
  • fore-cast,
  • fore seeings,
  • fore cast,
  • fore telling,
  • fore sights,
  • pre-science,
  • pre-visions,
  • foretellings,
  • fore-telling.
  •fortune-telling (noun)
  • clairvoyancy,
  • augury,
  • premonition.
  •guess (noun)
  • sneaking suspicions,
  • guesstimates,
  • shot dark,
  • surmisals,
  • shot the dark,
  • shot in dark.
  •guesswork (noun)
  • Reck,
  • recks.
  •prediction (noun)
  • horoscope,
  • of event anticipation.
  •prestidigitation (noun)
  • conjuration,
  • conjurations.
  •psychical research (noun)
  • hysteria,
  • spiritualism,
  • hypnotism,
  • astrology,
  • psychoanalysis,
  • telepathy,
  • hallucination,
  • mysticism,
  • psychotherapy,
  • supernaturalism,
  • psychology.
  •revelation (noun)
  • eyeopener,
  • adumbrations,
  • dis plays,
  • ex pose,
  • un veiling,
  • blow by blows,
  • re-velation,
  • fore-shadowings,
  • ex-position,
  • fore shadowing,
  • un coverings,
  • dis-play,
  • the latests,
  • eyeopeners,
  • fore shadowings,
  • unearthings,
  • earfuls,
  • re velation,
  • dis-plays,
  • re velations,
  • un-covering,
  • lightning bolts,
  • un-veiling,
  • un earthing,
  • re-velations,
  • fore-shadowing,
  • latests,
  • ex-pose,
  • divulgements,
  • un veilings,
  • ex-positions,
  • uncoverings,
  • un-coverings,
  • un-earthing,
  • un covering,
  • un-veilings,
  • dis play.
  •sign (noun)
  • fore-warnings,
  • fore-warning,
  • fore warnings,
  • pre-cursor,
  • pre-cursors,
  • pre cursors,
  • handwriting wall.
  •sixth sense (noun)
  • vibes,
  • keen intuition,
  • vibe,
  • gut feeling.
  •vision (noun)
  • ideality,
  • mental picture,
  • mental pictures,
  • castles in the air,
  • Visions,
  • breadth of view,
  • Idealities,
  • castles in air.
  •voodoo (noun)
  • OBIS,
  • obeah,
  • obi.

• Other synonyms:

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  • Ouija Board,
  • seance.
  •augury
  • penetration.

Paraphrases for Divination:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    execution.

Divination Sentence Examples:

• He questioned without divination or forewarning.

• He was stirred by an appreciation of the dream so grandly conceived, so imperfectly realized, by a divination of the long struggle and the many disappointments.

Homophones for Divination:

• daubentonia, depend on, defamation, definition.

Hypernym for Divination:

• n.

  • communication
    oracle.

Hyponym for Divination:

• n.

  • communication
    guess, supposition, foretelling, conjecture, prediction, surmise, forecasting, hypothesis, speculation, surmisal, prognostication.