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Definition of Sortes
1. n.
Definition of Sortes
1. Noun. divination, or the seeking of guidance, by chance selection of a passage in the Bible or another text regarded as authoritative. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sortes
1. divination by chance opening of the bible [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sortes
Literary usage of Sortes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1892)
"jealousies engendered by this conspiracy were very BOO detrimental to the Vandal
state1. — 2. The Vandal Allotments (sortes ..."
2. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1895)
"sortes SANCTORUM THE VALENTINE XIII IT was Sunday afternoon in the farmhouse, on
the thirteenth of February. Dinner being over, Bathsheba, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"sortes, lots. Among the modes of divination practised by the Italian nations,
... It is probable that there were also sortes at the oracular seat of Fortuna ..."
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