[Brit.] &c (plan) 626; premonition &c (warning) 668; prognosis,
prophecy, vaticination, mantology†, prognostication, premonstration†;
augury, auguration†; ariolation†, hariolation†; foreboding, aboding†;
bodement†, abodement†; omniation†, omniousness†; auspices, forecast; omen
&c 512; horoscope, nativity; sooth†, soothsaying; fortune telling,
crystal gazing; divination; necromancy &c 992.
[Divination by the stars] astrology†, horoscopy†, judicial
astrology†.
[Place of Prediction]. adytum prefiguration†, prefigurement;
prototype, type.
[person who predicts] oracle &c 513.
V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell,
soothsay, augurate†, tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity;
advise; forewarn &c 668.
presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken;
prefigure, preshow†; portend; foreshow†, foreshadow; shadow forth,
typify, pretypify†, ominate†, signify, point to.
usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower.
hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation,
excite hope; bid fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor &c
64.
[predict by mathematical or statistical means from past
experience] extrapolate, project.
Adj. predicting &c v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic†, fatidical†;
vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent†, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise†.
ominous, portentous, augurous†, augurial, augural; auspicial†,
auspicious; prescious†, monitory, extispicious†, premonitory,
significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.
Phr. coming events cast their shadows before [Campbell]; dicamus bona
verba [Lat.]; there buds the promise of celestial worth [Young].
[Divination: list] by oracles, Theomancy†; by the Bible,
Bibliomancy; by ghosts, Psychomancy†; by crystal gazing,
Crystallomancy†; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the
air, Aeromancy†, Chaomancy†; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by
meteors, Meteoromancy†; by winds, Austromancy†; by sacrificial
appearances, Aruspicy, Haruspicy†, Hieromancy†, Hieroscopy†; by the
entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy†, Hieromancy†; by the entrails
of a human sacrifice, Anthropomancy†; by the entrails of fishes,
Ichthyomancy†; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy†; by red-hot iron,
Sideromancy†; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy†; by mice, Myomancy†;
by birds, Orniscopy†, Ornithomancy†; by a cock picking up grains,
Alectryomancy, Alectromancy†; by fishes, Ophiomancy†; by herbs,
Botanomancy†; by water, Hydromancy†; by fountains, Pegomancy†; by a wand,
Rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes, Crithomancy†; by meal, Aleuromancy†,
Alphitomancy†; by salt, Halomancy†; by dice, Cleromancy†; by arrows,
Belomancy†; by a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy†; by a balanced sieve,
Coscinomancy†; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy†; by dots made at
random on paper, Geomancy†; by precious stones, Lithomancy†; by pebbles,
Pessomancy†; by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy†; by mirrors,
Catoptromancy†; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy†; by dreams,
Oneiromancy†; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting
the sun's rays, Onychomancy†; by finger rings, Dactylomancy†; by
numbers, Arithmancy†; by drawing lots, Sortilege†; by passages in books,
Stichomancy†; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy†,
Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy†; by the mode of laughing,
Geloscopy†; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy†; by walking in a circle,
Gyromancy†; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy†; by currents,
Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy†.