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Definition of Fortune telling
1. Noun. The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means.
Generic synonyms: Prognostication, Prophecy, Vaticination
Specialized synonyms: Arithmancy, Dowse, Dowsing, Rhabdomancy, Geomancy, Hydromancy, Lithomancy, Necromancy, Oneiromancy, Onomancy, Chirology, Chiromancy, Palm Reading, Palmistry, Pyromancy
Derivative terms: Divine
Definition of Fortune telling
1. Noun. The act of predicting a person's future. ¹
2. Verb. Predicting a person's future. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fortune Telling
Literary usage of Fortune telling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"Six Methods of Fortune-telling: By one's Ape.—By one's Physiognomy.— By a Bird
and Slips of Paper.—By dissecting written Characters.—By a Tortoise-shell and ..."
2. Bracebridge Hall: Or, The Humorists, a Medley by Washington Irving (1867)
"... FORTUNE-TELLING. Each city, each town, and every village, Affords us either
an alms or pillage. And if the weather be cold and raw, Then in a barn we ..."
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