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divinare

divinare [CL] 1 to practise divination. Cosan, ~ans, GlC C 680 (cf. Luke iii 28); hos [aruspices] in extis animalium ~are predictum est J. Sal. Pol. 461C; per stellarum inspeccionem ‥ putat ~ando predicere futura Kilwardby OS 69; quidam ‥ ~abat per os demoniaci et multa abscondita manifestabat Latin Stories 17. 2 (trans.) to predict or detect by divination. b to determine, ascertain. inter xij [zodiaci] signa, unde mathematici fatum, fortunam vel genesim ‥ se ~are et praenoscere posse ‥ arbitrabantur Aldh. Met. 3.  b ecce subitus ei vir astat ‥ multa feditate faciei terribilis, ‥ suavi tamen ‥ ipsum confidere jubet alloquio mentisque sue sibi ~at angustias Map NC IV 6 f. 47v; si ‥ scripserit Jeronimus alia nomina pro hiis, fateor quod illa ~are nescio Gros. Hexaem. proem. 61.

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