单词 | divinatory |
例句 | Numerology, especially in its soothsaying and divinatory aspects, is in many ways a typical pseudoscience. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In his essay “The Storyteller,” Walter Benjamin wrote that the novelist “invites the reader to a divinatory realization of the meaning of life by writing ‘Finis.’” The End of Endings 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The composer was, of course, deaf by this point — and divinatory. Cellist Antonio Lysy and fortepianist Tom Beghin try to capture real Beethoven 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z With all this anxiety swirling around us, is it any wonder that tarot readers, astrologers and other divinatory practitioners say they’ve never been busier? What L.A.'s astrologers and diviners say is in store for you in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z As I pondered what the Italian author would have made of Trump and his certainty that he was above the laws of society and nature, I was invaded by Dante's divinatory and lyrical voice. Sending Trump to Hell 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z With social media, she said, divinatory practices like astrology, crystals and tarot have been able to take up space in a public conversation. How millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z On consulting her magic mirror and other divinatory apparatus, she was desolated to find that Amadis, Galaor, Esplandian, and indeed all of her favourite champions, were soon to pay the debt of nature. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z He carried just two books in his luggage — the Shiji and the I Ching, or Book of Changes, the ancient divinatory text. Letter from China: Chinese Artists Drawn to Berlin, a Haven That Reveres History 2011-08-10T11:40:27Z Through this lens, divinatory practices encourage believers to pay attention to the patterns in their lives and the cycles of nature and to move through time with intention. What L.A.'s astrologers and diviners say is in store for you in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The specific nature of this service, stated in the fewest words, is that to his great divinatory gift are we indebted for an unprecedented strengthening of our hold upon reality. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Sympathy and symbolism, association of ideas and analogy, together with a certain amount of observation, are the explanation of the great mass of heteroscopic divinatory formulae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Ancient Mexico thus furnishes us with an interesting and instructive explanation of the origin of divinatory practices, prognostication at birth, etc. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations In this they are essentially “divinatory,” claiming foreknowledge of the future; and, as every ethnologist knows, divination belongs to a stadium of incomplete intellectual culture, one considerably short of the highest. An Ethnologist's View of History An Address Before the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Historical Society, at Trenton, New Jersey, January 28, 1896 Of all divinatory methods astrology has played the greatest rôle in human history, and is still believed in and studied by not a few persons. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV In a strictly scientific sense, games do not always involve the element of sport or play, being used in many forms among primitive peoples for serious divinatory purposes. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium The same facility of speaking in a fluent and exalted style while in the divinatory ecstacy, was remarked of old in the case of the Pythian priestess. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II The games were partly, sometimes wholly, diversional, but generally they were in large part divinatory, and thus reflected the hazardous occupations and low culture-status of the people. The Siouan Indians It appears to me just as teleologic and divinatory as those I have previously named. An Ethnologist's View of History An Address Before the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Historical Society, at Trenton, New Jersey, January 28, 1896 The belief in the sacredness or divinity of the human body has led to the search for divinatory signs in its parts. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV But the difficulty of interpretation may frequently make the dream of no value because it may happen that the future must be determined by recourse to other divinatory methods. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir He knew, then, this ferreting and divinatory Irishman! The Lion's Share Yes, affliction is like the divinatory wand, whose touch discovers deep-buried springs the existence of which was previously unknown. —— called on me to-day, and talked a good deal of ——. The Idler in France It can be exhausted by no theory, and only a divinatory criticism might dare to wish to characterize its ideal. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes From these external signs we may now pass to consider divinatory facts derived from men's inward experience. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV If they enter the house, they must be driven out in a gentlemanly way and divinatory means resorted to at once, for they may portend ill luck. 11Called also �-nit and In-a-n�-tan. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir These savages attach an absolute faith to divinatory services, to incantations, to the fetiches, clay figures stained with white and red, representing fantastic animals or figures of men and women cut out of whole wood. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen And Shakspere's views, which he has embodied in 'Hamlet,' were not in divinatory advance of his age; they were easily comprehensible to the best of his time. Shakspere and Montaigne It was under such impressions that so many nations originally rested their belief in divinatory dreams. Thaumaturgia In its divinatory rôle it has often been connected with astrology. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Woman may lawfully claim superiority with regard to her intuitive faculty, and thus she is well equipped for exercising her divinatory powers. Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves We have seen such places before; we have visited them in that divinatory glance which strays away into space for a moment over the top of a suggestive book. Italian Hours This verisimilitude may be dramatic art backed by knowledge of public life; but even at that we must not forget that the best dramatic art is the operation of a divinatory instinct for truth. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion Ah! ah! my dear nephew!" replied Madame, laughing; "permit me to tell you that your divinatory science is at fault for once. The Vicomte De Bragelonne In savage and half-civilized communities divinatory signs are usually simple, drawn from appearances of familiar objects and occurrences. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Enthusiasm—that, in the broad Platonic sense of the Phaedrus, was the secret of his divinatory power over the Hellenic world. The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Ah! ah! my dear nephew!" replied Madame, laughing, "permit me to tell you that your divinatory science is at fault for once. Ten Years Later Astronomy appears to have been pursued in the first instance not from interest in the natural laws governing the movements of sun, moon, and stars, but from belief in their divinatory significance. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV |
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