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Nave Topical Bible
• Divinity of Christ
• Divination
• Decrees, Divine
Thompson Chain Reference
• Worthiness, Divine
• Tokens, Divine
• Teacher, Divine
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Divine Power
• Divination
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Divination
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Divine Service
• Divine Liturgy
American Tract Society
• Divination
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Divination
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Scholastic Divinity
• Light Divine
• Influences, Divine
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Chabad Knowledge Base
• Divine Providence
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Divinity
• Divination
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Divination
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Divination
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Submission: to the Divine Will
• Sceptics and Controversial Divines
• Divine Goodness: Unceasing
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Healing, Divine
• Divinity of Christ
• Diviner's Oak
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Magic, Divination, and Sorcery
• Divination
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Divinity of Christ
• Divinity
• Divination
King James Dictionary
• Diviner
• Divine
• Divination
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Divine
• Divination
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Society of the Divine Word
• Society of the Divine Saviour
• Society of the Divine Savior
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People's Bible Dictionary
• Divination
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Divination
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Divinity
• Divine
• Divination
• Divine, Practice Divination
Webster Dictionary
• Divinize
• Divinization
• Divinity Calf
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Divination
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Divination
• Divining-Rod
• John Abernethy (Divine)
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Arrows, Divination by
• Divine Names
• Divine Visitation
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Arrows Divination by
• Divination
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Assembly of Divines
• Christ, Divinity of.
• Divination
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Divine Comedy, the
• Divine Doctor
• Divine Pagan
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Daughters of Divine Charity
• Daughters of the Divine Redeemer
• Divination
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
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• Divine Judgment
• Divine Service
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Lexicons
• ܐܰܠܳܗܽܘܬ݂ܳܐ
• ܐܰܠܳܗܳܝܳܐ
• ܩܨܰܡ
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Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Divination
• θεῖος
• θειότης
• θεός
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• אֱלֹהִים
• גְּזַר
• מִקְסָם
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DIVINATION, n. L., to foretell. See Divine.

1. The act of divining a foretelling future events, or discovering things secret or obscure, by the aid of superior beings, or by other than human means. The ancient heathen philosophers divided divination into two kinds, natural and artificial. Natural divination was supposed to be effected by a kind of inspiration or divine afflatus artificial divination was effected by certain rites, experiments or observations, as by sacrifices, cakes, flour, wine, observation of entrails, flight of birds, lots, verses, omens, position of the stars, &c.

2. Conjectural presage prediction.