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divination

n. the purported art or practice of discerning future events or hidden knowledge by supernatural means. The numerous forms of divination include astrology, augury, crystal gazing, lecanomancy, necromancy, numerology, oneiromancy, palmistry, and rhabdomancy. —divinatory adj. —divine vb.

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