Now updated for CSW19. 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. |