Crossword-Solution: DIVINATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Divination | n. | The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. |
| Divination | n. | An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
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Sentences with DIVINATION (5)
Some believe in it; some don’t; I do.” “Very well, let’s try it,” said Bathsheba, bounding from her seat with that total disregard of consistency which can be indulged in towards a dependent, and entering into the spirit of divination at once.
Therefore begrudging neither augury Nor other divination that is thine, O save thyself, thy country, and thy king, Save all from this defilement of blood shed.
Men do not, at worst, suffer much from such exposure; and in this instance the flash of divination which had carried the meaning of the letters to Lily’s brain had revealed also that they were appeals—repeated and therefore probably unanswered—for the renewal of a tie which time had evidently relaxed.
But it has.” “And then suddenly--” Mary spoke up as if from some cavernous depth of divination--“suddenly, long afterward, one says to one’s self, ‘THAT WAS it?’” She was oddly startled at the sepulchral sound with which her question fell on the banter of the other two, and she saw the shadow of the same surprise flit across Alida’s clear pupils.
One at least of these, the _Divination by Birds_, was, as we know from Proclus, attached to the end of the _Works_ until it was rejected by Apollonius Rhodius: doubtless it continued the same theme of how to live, showing how man can avoid disasters by attending to the omens to be drawn from birds.
Quotes with DIVINATION (3)
Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself.
I’ll use my divination and look into the future. Hey, you know what, I’m seeing the future right now. If I stand here and wait, then in three minutes a train’s going to come. And after that, another train’s going to come. Here, I’ll let you guess what’s going to happen afterwards. I’ll give you a hint — there’s a train.
Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to his moment which will tell if he is to die at that man’s hand or that man at his. What more certain validation of a man’s worth could there be? This enhancement of the game to its ultimate state admits no argument concerning the notion of fate. The selection of one man over another is a preference abso…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1986–2020).