Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A steady staring into the depths of a clear object, now usually a glass ball, with the view of arousing visual perceptions.
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Examples
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The practice of scrying, or crystal-gazing, would be practiced by the English magus John Dee (and the charlatan Edward Kelley) after Dee's visit to Urbino in 1563 and the publication of his Mathematicall Praeface to Euclid's Elements.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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If you knew how many times I wished I could see the future … heh, and how many people expect me to have that crystal-gazing ability …
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They are no different from the astrology, alternative therapy, crystal-gazing believers.
From The Archive: Staring Up At The Stars David Hadley 2008
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They are no different from the astrology, alternative therapy, crystal-gazing believers.
Archive 2008-09-01 David Hadley 2008
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Such methods for learning the truth as slate-writing, ouija-boards, mind-reading, spiritualistic séances, crystal-gazing, and the like, are taboo.
Week 42: Doing Donuts on Free Lunch Drive Douglas Wolk 2007
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Such methods for learning the truth as slate-writing, ouija-boards, mind-reading, spiritualistic séances, crystal-gazing, and the like, are taboo.
Archive 2007-02-01 Douglas Wolk 2007
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Air Masters, known best for crystal-gazing, and Fire, who favored black mirrors, were twice as likely at their worst as an Earth Master at his best to have the ability to part the veils and glimpse what was to come.
The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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It had started feeling that way the day he got into town—the day he met the woman with the crystal-gazing eyes at Avalon Point.
Eye of the Beholder Jayne Ann Krentz 1999
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Again I come back to this difficulty of crystal-gazing.
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Such hallucinations are commonly provoked by crystal-gazing (_q. v._), but auditory hallucinations may be caused by the use of a shell (shell-hearing), and the other senses are occasionally affected.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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