Divinatory

There is a reading there to be taken in which the robot's faith in its divinatory technique is mere wish-fulfilment. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

Note 288: A divinatory practice of letter combination and number mysticism that investigates sacred mysteries, calculates the names of god, and foretells the future. back ❋ Unknown (2008)

Is it possible, then, that the mirror-tablet at Urbino reflects the speculative aspect of Prudence, providing a key to divinatory practices by Federico's astrologers? ❋ Unknown (2008)

This magical pattern is, oddly enough, an abstract representation of the "bowels of the earth" and a reference to both the divinatory practice of extispicy and an ancient conception of the journey of the sun under the horizon during the course of the night2. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There, before a sea of TV cameras, he shook a container of divinatory sticks until one fell out that told the city's fortune. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In my view so far, the purpose of this model by its creator ended at combining these divinatory practices together into a single model as a brief artistic statement of how these practices are connected by way of uncovering the future, but we're no doubt asking too much of the model to provide us with signs of their interrelationships on top of this. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's quite probable that the earliest board games had divinatory significance - so this much later linkage of playing cards/fortune telling is like a distant echo of practices having much greater significance in the past. ❋ Jan (2008)

There is no shred of doubt that their set of divinatory beliefs are related and we also know that the Babylonian pantheon is rich and complex too. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Inspired by such national treasures as the Group of Seven, Stompin' Tom Connors, the divinatory -- not divine -- government of Mackenzie King, rolling prairies, Canada's national game, les couriers du bois and more, the Rheos have plundered the Canadian mythos to become a kind of bedrock myth themselves. ❋ Staq Mavlen (2006)

The words of men long dead, only now deemed divinatory? ❋ Sanderson_Brandon (2006)

Some divinatory rituals have survived in form of games of "snap-apple" and "bobbing for apples." ❋ Unknown (2006)

For instance, the Minor Terata section tells of the Chaldean divinatory meanings of various congenital malformations, such as "When a woman gives birth to an infant ... whose right ear is small, the house of the man (in whose house the birth took place) will be destroyed". ❋ Ray Girvan (2004)

Obviously, a one-shot visit to a "seer" doesn't qualify in this regard, and I recognize that most people do NOT use divinatory techniques the way I'm talking about. ❋ Angry Professor (2005)

They link dream images (e.g. dream of a cook or dream of a locomotive) to divinatory meanings (e.g. "you will receive a letter" or "beware a strange man") and they also give numbers for betting (e.g. 5-14-50 or 65-41-55). ❋ Unknown (2005)

I use the Tarot images for their archetypes, to inspire creativity and awareness–not really into the whole divinatory bit. ❋ Unknown (2004)