Now updated for CSW15. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| aeromancy | divination by means of the weather. |
| aruspex | (Lat.) a person who inspected the entrails of sacrificial victims in order to foretell the future. |
| augur | to foretell from omens. |
| augural | of or pertaining to augurs or augury. |
| augurer | (Shakesp.) an augur. |
| augurship | the office, or period of office, of an augur. |
| augury | divination using bird's flight. |
| auspex | (Lat.) a soothsayer of ancient Rome. |
| auspicate | to prognosticate, predict. |
| auspice | an omen, esp a good one. |
| axinomancy | divination using an axe or hatchet. |
| belomancy | divination by means of arrows. |
| bibliomancy | divination by interpreting a passage picked at random from a book, esp from a religious book such as the Bible. |
| botanomancy | divination using burning branches or plants. |
| capnomancy | divination by means of smoke. |
| cartomancy | divination by the use of playing cards. |
| cavel | (Scots) a piece of wood used in casting lots. |
| ceromancy | divination by means of wax drippings. |
| cheiromancer | one who claims to divine by means of palmistry. |
| cheiromancy | divination by means of palmistry. |
| chirognomy | palmistry. |
| chiromancer | a palm-reader. |
| chiromancy | divination by means of palmistry. |
| chiromantic | relating to chiromancy. |
| chiromantical | relating to chiromancy. |
| cleromancy | divination using dice. |
| coscinomancy | divination using a sieve and a pair of shears. |
| crithomancy | divination by strewing meal over sacrificial animals. |
| crystallomancy | divination by means of clear objects. |
| dactyliomancy | divination by means of a finger. |
| divination | the art or practice of divining. |
| divinator | (Arch.) one who practices or pretends to divination. |
| divinatory | professing, or relating to, divination. |
| divine | pertaining to or characteristic of a god (noun ) a clergyman; (verb) to foretell by occult means |
| diviner | one that divines. |
| divineress | a woman who divines. |
| dolos | (S. Afr.) the knucklebone of a sheep used by diviners. |
| fatidic | of or relating to prophesy. |
| fatidical | of or relating to prophesy. |
| fatidically | (Adv.) FATIDICAL, of or relating to prophesy. |
| foregleam | a glimpse into the future. |
| foreread | to foretell. |
| foresay | to foretell. |
| foreseer | one who foresees. |
| foresight | the act or power of foreseeing. |
| foresighted | having foresight. |
| foresightedly | (Adv.) FORESIGHTED, having foresight. |
| foretell | to tell of or about in advance. |
| gastromancy | divination by sounds from the belly. |
| geomancer | one who practises geomancy. |
| geomancy | divination by shapes formed, eg when earth is thrown down onto a surface. |
| geomant | one who practises geomancy. |
| geomantic | relating to geomancy, divination by casting earth onto a surface. |
| gyromancy | divination by walking in a circle until dizzy; the fortune is determined by where the person falls. |
| hariolate | to prophesy, soothsay. |
| haruspex | (Lat.) a person who inspected the entrails of sacrificial victims in order to foretell the future. |
| haruspical | relating to haruspication, divination by the liver. |
| haruspicate | to foretell by inspection of animals' entrails. |
| haruspication | divination by inspecting animal entrails. |
| haruspicy | divination by inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals. |
| hepatoscopy | divination by examining animal livers. |
| hieromancy | divination by studying objects offered in sacrifice. |
| hieroscopy | divination using entrails. |
| horoscope | a map of the heavens at the hour or on the day of a person's birth, by which an astrologer predicts the events of a person's life. |
| horoscopic | relating to a horoscope. |
| horoscopist | one who casts horoscopes, an astrologer. |
| horoscopy | the art or practice of casting horoscopes. |
| hydromancer | one who practises hydromancy. |
| hydromancy | divination by the appearance or motion of liquids (as water). |
| hydromantic | related to hydromancy, divination by water. |
| hyleg | the ruling planet at the time of one's birth. |
| kevel | (Scots) a piece of wood used in casting lots. |
| kevil | (Scots) a piece of wood used in casting lots. |
| lampadomancy | divination using the flame of a torch. |
| lithomancy | divination by stones or meteorites. |
| mantic | (Greek) of or relating to the faculty of divination, prophetic. |
| mantically | (Adv.) MANTIC, of or relating to the faculty of divination. |
| metoposcopic | relating to metoposcopy, the art of judging a person's character and fortune from his face. |
| metoposcopical | relating to metoposcopy, the art of judging a person's character and fortune from his face. |
| metoposcopist | one who practises metoposcopy, the art of judging a person's character and fortune from his face, principally his forehead. |
| metoposcopy | the art of judging a person's character and fortune from his face, principally his forehead. |
| myomancy | divination from the movements of mice. |
| myomantic | relating to myomancy, divination from the movements of mice. |
| necromancer | one who practises necromancy. |
| necromancy | divination by trying to communicate with the spirits of the dead. |
| necromantic | relating to necromancy, divination by trying to communicate with the spirits of the dead. |
| necromantical | relating to necromancy, divination by trying to communicate with the spirits of the dead. |
| necromantically | (Adv.) NECROMANTICAL, relating to necromancy, divination by trying to communicate with the spirits of the dead. |
| nigromancy | divination using black magic or the dead. |
| oenomancy | divination by studying the appearance of wine. |
| omoplatoscopy | divination by observing the cracks in a burning shoulder-blade. |
| omphalomancy | predicting the number of children a mother will bear by counting the knots in her firstborn's umbilical cord. |
| oneiromancer | one who practises oneiromancy, divination by dreams. |
| oneiromancy | the practice of predicting the future by interpreting dreams. |
| onychomancy | divination by studying the fingernails. |
| ornithomancy | divination by observing flight of birds. |
| ornithomantic | relating to ornithomancy, divination by observing flight of birds. |
| palmistry | foretelling a person's future from the lines on their palms. |
| presager | one who, or that which, presages. |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms. |
| prognosticative | of the nature of prognostication. |
| prophet | one who predicts. |
| pyromancer | one who engages in pyromancy, divination by the use of fire. |
| pyromancy | divination by the use of fire. |
| pyromantic | of or pertaining to pyromancy. |
| rhabdomancer | one who practises rhabdomancy. |
| rhabdomancy | divination by wands or rods. |
| rhabdomantist | one who practices divination by means of a rod to locate underground water; a dowser. |
| scapulimancy | divination involving a shoulder blade which has been charred or cracked from a fire. |
| scapulimantic | related to scapulimancy, divination involving a shoulder blade which has been charred or cracked from a fire. |
| scapulomancy | divination involving a shoulder blade which has been charred or cracked from a fire. |
| scapulomantic | related to scapulomancy, divination involving a shoulder blade which has been charred or cracked from a fire. |
| sciomancer | one who practises sciomancy, divination with the help of ghosts. |
| sciomancy | divination with the help of ghosts. |
| sciomantic | relating to sciomancy, divination with the help of ghosts. |
| scry | to see the future eg via a crystal ball. |
| scryer | one who scries in a crystal ball. |
| seeress | a female seer. |
| sibyl | (Greek) any of various women in classical antiquity supposed to utter the oracles and prophecies of a god. |
| sibylic | of or like a sibyl. |
| sibyllic | of or like a sibyl. |
| sibylline | of or like a sibyl. |
| significator | in astrology, a planet ruling a house. |
| significatory | of or relating to a significator, in astrology, a planet ruling a house. |
| skry | to see the future eg via a crystal ball. |
| skryer | one who scries in a crystal ball. |
| soothsay | to foretell, to divine. |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means. |
| sortes | (Lat.) divination by chance opening of the Bible, Homer, Virgil etc. |
| sortilege | divination by drawing lots. |
| sortileger | one who divines by sortilege. |
| sortilegy | divination by drawing lots. |
| southsay | to foretell, to divine. |
| spa | a resort with a mineral spring; (verb) to stay at a spa. |
| spae | (ON) to foretell; to divine. |
| spaer | (Scots) one who foresees the future. |
| spaewife | (Scots) a wise woman. |
| spodomancy | divination by means of ashes. |
| spodomantic | relating to spodomancy, divination by means of ashes. |
| sybil | (Greek) any of various women in classical antiquity supposed to utter the oracles and prophecies of a god. |
| taghairm | (Gaelic) inspiration sought by lying in a bullock's hide behind a waterfall. |
| taroc | a pack of cards used in fortune-telling. |
| tarok | a pack of cards used in fortune-telling. |
| tarot | a pack of cards used in fortune-telling. |
| tephromancy | divination by ashes. |
| theomancy | divination by means of oracles. |
| theomantic | relating to theomancy, divination by means of oracles. |
| vatic | prophetic, oracular. |
| vatical | prophetic, oracular. |
| vaticinal | of or pertaining to prophecy. |
| vaticinate | to prophesy, predict. |
| vaticination | prophecy. |
| voluspa | (ON) in Scott, a sibyl or prophetess, from a misunderstanding of ON Voluspa, the Eddic poem. |
| zodiacal | pertaining to the zodiac. |
| zoomancy | (Greek) divination by observing animals. |
| zoomantic | relating to zoomancy, divination by observing animals. |