cledonism

Definitions

Divination through the interpretation of words (written or spoken) encountered by chance.

uncountable

Examples

“And indeed cledonism, or the putting of a prophetic sense⟳ on words spoken with another reference (John xi. 50 sq.) can never have⟳ been the business of a class of men (Jud. ix. 37, Jer. xxvii. 9, Micah v. 12), or been so marked a type⟳ of divination that Isaiah could speak⟳ of it as characteristically Philistine, and that Isa. lvii. 3 could found on it a name⟳ of opprobrium.”

“We shall find⟳ Cledonism stereotyped and converted into palpable lots in the most perfected of the lottery methods, that which uses written speech, phrases designated by chance and applied to a given interrogation.”

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