Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
hariolation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A soothsaying; a foretelling.
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- noun obsolete
Soothsaying ;prophecy .
Etymologies
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From (the stem of) Latin ariolari, hariolari, from hariolus ("soothsayer") + -ation.
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Examples
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By way of complication Geomancy is mixed up with astrology and then it becomes a most complicated kind of ariolation and an endless study.
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By way of complication Geomancy is mixed up with astrology and then it becomes a most complicated kind of ariolation and an endless study.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
Gammerstang commented on the word ariolation
(noun) - A soothsaying; a foretelling; sometimes written hariolation; from Latin ariolus. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850
April 22, 2018