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Fortune telling   /fˈɔrtʃən tˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
Fortune telling

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






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"Fortune telling" Quotes from Famous Books



... Greek helmets in red. They mingled with the crowd, chatting serenely and counting their rosaries, telling fortunes for those who would hear but chiefly searching out the rich Mongols whom they could cure or exploit by fortune telling, predictions or other mysteries of a city of 60,000 Lamas. Simultaneously religious and political espionage was being carried out. Just at this time many Mongols were arriving from Inner Mongolia and they were continuously surrounded by an invisible but numerous ...
— Beasts, Men and Gods • Ferdinand Ossendowski



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



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