Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

[Brit.] &c (plan) 626; premonition &c (warning) 668; prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology†, prognostication, premonstration†; augury, auguration†; ariolation†, hariolation†; foreboding, aboding†; bodement†, abodement†; omniation†, omniousness†; auspices, forecast; omen &c 512; horoscope, nativity; sooth†, soothsaying; fortune telling, crystal gazing; divination; necromancy &c 992. [Divination by the stars] astrology†, horoscopy†, judicial astrology†. [Place of Prediction]. adytum prefiguration†, prefigurement; prototype, type. [person who predicts] oracle &c 513. V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate†, tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn &c 668. presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure, preshow†; portend; foreshow†, foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify†, ominate†, signify, point to. usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower. hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope; bid fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor &c 64. [predict by mathematical or statistical means from past experience] extrapolate, project. Adj. predicting &c v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic†, fatidical†; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent†, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise†. ominous, portentous, augurous†, augurial, augural; auspicial†, auspicious; prescious†, monitory, extispicious†, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of. Phr. coming events cast their shadows before [Campbell]; dicamus bona verba [Lat.]; there buds the promise of celestial worth [Young]. [Divination: list] by oracles, Theomancy†; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts, Psychomancy†; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy†; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy†, Chaomancy†; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy†; by winds, Austromancy†; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy, Haruspicy†, Hieromancy†, Hieroscopy†; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy†, Hieromancy†; by the entrails of a human sacrifice, Anthropomancy†; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy†; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy†; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy†; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy†; by mice, Myomancy†; by birds, Orniscopy†, Ornithomancy†; by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy, Alectromancy†; by fishes, Ophiomancy†; by herbs, Botanomancy†; by water, Hydromancy†; by fountains, Pegomancy†; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes, Crithomancy†; by meal, Aleuromancy†, Alphitomancy†; by salt, Halomancy†; by dice, Cleromancy†; by arrows, Belomancy†; by a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy†; by a balanced sieve, Coscinomancy†; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy†; by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy†; by precious stones, Lithomancy†; by pebbles, Pessomancy†; by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy†; by mirrors, Catoptromancy†; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy†; by dreams, Oneiromancy†; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy†; by finger rings, Dactylomancy†; by numbers, Arithmancy†; by drawing lots, Sortilege†; by passages in books, Stichomancy†; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy†, Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy†; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy†; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy†; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy†; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy†; by currents, Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy†.