0 the skill or act of saying or discovering what will happen in the future --
Schleiermacher is concerned with knowing as much as possible about the author and speaks of ' divination ' as a method of knowing the author's mind.
As such it is, as expected, studded with dates as well as many anecdotal illustrations of the role of mediums, of divinations, # and of traditional religion.
But precisely this nonrelevance does not make one revise one's beliefs in the general framework of this institution of divination.
I am therefore inclined to believe that the act of scattering seeds performed by the sowing priests could be a divination ritual.
English condemnations of augur y and divination were more often directed not against its theoretical underpinnings but against its cultural setting.
Throughout both sides of the theory two methods are in operation, divination and comparison.
He connects the grammar of divination with its rhetorical structures.
The series of practices occurring during the nine days of the festival are strictly regulated by tradition and divination.
