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81magic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sorcery; witchery, glamour, spell; legerdemain. adj. magic[al], mystic[al], occult; enchanting. See deception. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Occult] Syn. enchanted, enchanting, fascinating, charmed,… …
82oracle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. prophet, seer (see prediction). II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A revelation] Syn. commandment, edict, canon; see law 3 . 2. [A prophet] Syn. soothsayer, Cassandra, fortuneteller; see prophet . III (Roget s 3… …
83prediction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Foretelling the future Nouns 1. prediction, announcement; premonition, warning; prophecy, vaticination, prognosis, prognostication, premonstration; augury, auguration; foreboding, presentiment,… …
84vision — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sense of sight Nouns 1. vision, sight, optics, eyesight, seeing; view, look, espial, glance, ken; glimpse, glimmer, peep, coup d oeil; focus; gaze, stare, leer; perception, contemplation; regard, survey; …
85oracular — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Vague or obscure] Syn. ambiguous, mysterious, cryptic; see obscure 1 , 3 , vague 2 . 2. [Prophetic] Syn. prescient, soothsaying, foretelling, prophesying, forecasting, predicting, presaging, foreboding, auguring, augural …
86augury — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. 1. prediction prophesy, divination, forecast, forewarning, soothsaying, forecasting. 2. omen portent, sign, harbinger, herald, forewarning. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A phenomenon that serves as a sign or… …
87vaticination — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Something that is foretold by or as if by supernatural means: divination, oracle, prophecy, soothsaying, vision. See FORESIGHT …
88Prediction — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Prediction >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 prediction prediction announcement Sgm: N 1 program program programme &c.(plan) 626 Sgm: N 1 premonition premonition &c.(warning) 668 Sgm: N 1 prognosis prognosis …
89augury — late 14c., divination from the flight of birds, from O.Fr. augure divination, soothsaying, sorcery, enchantment, or directly from L. augurium divination, the observation and interpretation of omens (see AUGUR (Cf. augur)). Figurative sense of… …
90pythoness — late 14c., woman with the power of soothsaying, from O.Fr. phitonise (13c.), from L.L. pythonissa, used in Vulgate of the Witch of Endor (I Sam. xxviii. 7), and often treated as her proper name, lit. fem. of pytho familiar spirit; which… …
