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占卜,预言

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Soothsaying \Sooth"say`ing\, n.
   1. A true saying; truth. [Obs.]

   2. The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events;
      the art or practice of making predictions.

            A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . .
            . which brought her masters much gain by
            soothsaying.                          --Acts xvi.
                                                  16.

   3. A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.

            Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain.
                                                  --Eclus.
                                                  xxxiv. 5.

资料来源 : WordNet®

soothsaying
     n : the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by
         supernatural means [syn: {divination}, {foretelling}, {fortune
         telling}]