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Soothsaying

noun
1.
The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means.  Synonyms: divination, foretelling, fortune telling.





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"Soothsaying" Quotes from Famous Books



... and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus; By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys' grave, majestic pace, By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look, And the Carpathian wizard's hook, [Footnote: Proteus] By scaly Triton's winding shell, And old soothsaying Glaucus' spell, By Leucothea's lovely hands, And her son who rules the strands. By Thetis' tinsel-slippered feet, And the songs of Sirens ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch
... opinion in this matter before the morrow, after that she had slept there through the night. And on the morrow, when the day was far spent, such preparations were made as were necessary to enable her to accomplish her soothsaying. She bade them bring her those women, who knew the incantation, which she required to work her spells, and which she called Warlocks; but such women were not to be found. Thereupon a search was made throughout ...
— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various


Words linked to "Soothsaying" :   rhabdomancy, lithomancy, prophecy, dowse, palm reading, oneiromancy, necromancy, prognostication, palmistry, vaticination, pyromancy, dowsing, hydromancy, foretelling, divination, onomancy, fortune telling, chiromancy, arithmancy, chirology, geomancy


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