288 examples of divination in sentences

Of the magi of the Jews, it is proved by Lightfoot, that after their return from Babylon, having entirely forsaken idolatry, and being no longer favoured with the gift of prophecy, they gradually abandoned themselves, before the coming of our Saviour, to sorcery and divination.

Thus, the funerals of the dead were at last converted into methods of divination, and an innocent institution of one of the grossest pieces of folly and superstition.

The Romans, who were remarkably fertile in these sorts of demonological inventions, suggested numerous ways of divination.

OP DIVINATION BY THE ANCIENTSPRODIGIES, ETC.

Divination was divided by the ancients into artificial and natural.

Artificial divination is also of two kinds: the one argues from natural causes, as in the predictions of physicians relative to the event of diseases, from the tongue, pulse, etc.

The systems of divination reduceable under these heads are almost incalculable.

In Cicero's time this mode of divination was at a very low ebb.

The origin of this act among the people of Tuscany, is related by Cicero in the following manner: "A peasant," says he, "ploughing in the field, his ploughshare running pretty deep in the earth, turned up a clod, from whence sprung a child, who taught him and the other Tuscans the art of divination."

"There is doubtless," says Cicero, "something even among barbarians which marks that they possess the gift of presentiment and divination.

" We shall now proceed to notice the subject of dreams in another point of viewthat is, as being employed as a medium of divination in the cure of diseases, in which the fancies of the brain appear, in reality, to as little advantage as they do with reference to any other considerations in which such pretended omens exist.

BY VISIONARY DIVINATION.

Upon this dogma was founded the mystery of incubations, or the art of healing by visionary divination.

We must therefore, probe somewhat deeper, in order to illustrate that species of divination which was the result of dreams, and a source of divination on the nature of diseases and their remedies.

We must therefore, probe somewhat deeper, in order to illustrate that species of divination which was the result of dreams, and a source of divination on the nature of diseases and their remedies.

Although it be doubtful whether the Greeks owed this species of divination to their own invention or not, its existence may at least be traced as far as the earliest ages of their history; notwithstanding no positive mention of it has been made either by Homer or the authors following him.

The oracles, whose intervention was principally or altogether sought for the healing of the sick by means of divination founded on dreams, were scattered over Greece, Italy, Egypt, and other countries.

" In England the marigold, which is carefully excluded from the flowers with which German maidens tell their fortunes as unfavourable to love, is often used for divination, and in Germany the star-flower and dandelion.

In Denmark many an anxious lover places the St. John's wort between the beams under the roof for the purpose of divination, the usual custom being to put one plant for herself and another for her sweetheart.

" In Austria, on Christmas Eve, apples are used for divination.

It had thus come to our young woman on the spot and by divination: the service he desired of her matched with remarkable closeness what she had so promptly taken into her head to name to himselfto name in her own interest, though deterred as yet from having brought it right out.

It is needless to add that, after this, divination through the medium of cocks and grain fell out of fashion.

They consider their soothsayers, or people who practise divination, as priests.

While we went in, some servants met us carrying out some shoulder-blades of sheep, burnt as black as coals; and on enquiring, I learnt that the khan performs a divination, before undertaking any important matter, in this manner.

Sometime after the lady Cota was sick almost to death, and the divination by lot of the idolaters did her no good.

288 examples of  divination  in sentences