Sentence examples for in divination from inspiring English sources

For example, a diviner (sangoma) specialises in divination and acts as an ancestral spirit medium; a herbalist (inyanga) has extensive knowledge of medicinal plants and a faith healer (umthandazi) heals mostly with prayer and holy water.

The bones cattle scapulae and turtle plastrons were used in divination ceremonies at the Shang royal court.

The bones — cattle scapulae and turtle plastrons — were used in divination ceremonies at the Shang royal court.

The handful of live animals in Mr. Huang's globe are references to ancient Chinese symbols said to help in divination.

The Elizabethans found in divination support for their belief that history contained a hidden design that would culminate in a new world order.

The development of astronomy seems to have been greatly accelerated by that of astrology, which took the lead among the quasi-sciences involved in divination.

Such encounters occur in divinations, spirit mediums, communication with the dead, and other forms of the mystical experience.

The Christian rhetor Lactantius records that, at Antioch some time in 299, the emperors were engaged in sacrifice and divination in an attempt to predict the future.

Wagner's approach, part of a broader move in politics, cut all of that out; why engage in such divination when you have the time and money to just call voters and ask them about their leanings directly?

The astral omens employed in Mesopotamian divination were later commingled with what came to be known as astrology in the strict sense of the term and constituted within astrology a branch described as natural astrology.

There is more here than a "bias in weather divination".