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Definition of Divinations
1. divination [n] - See also: divination
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divinations
Literary usage of Divinations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"He rejects astrological divinations. time also I had rejected the lying divinations
impious ravings of the astrologers. Let Thine own mercies, ..."
2. A Compendium of Grecian Antiquities by Charles Dexter Cleveland (1854)
"Ofthese means, the Oracles and divinations * of the Greeks form a conspicuous part.
It was a universally received opinion that the gods conferred ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... expounders of dreams, to mislead people by their divinations and responses.
It is all the same, whether a man is deceived by demons or by their minions. ..."
4. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1895)
"CHAPTER XXV Wherein is set down the adventure of the Braying and the diverting
one of the Puppet-showman, with the memorable divinations of the divining Ape ..."
5. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1864)
"divinations and Sacrifices.—The Road granted at last.—The Preparations for
continuing the Expedition.—The Departure. I NOW received a letter from Grant to ..."
6. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, Philip Schaff, John Chrysostom (1892)
"HE REFUTES THE divinations OF THE ASTROLOGERS, DEDUCED FROM THE CONSTELLATIONS.
8. Now also had I repudiated the lying divinations and impious absurdities ..."
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