ariolation

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noun

Soothsaying; prophecy.

OriginLatin ariolari →
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Meanings

nounariolation (uncountable)

alternative hariolation

  1. obsoleteuncountableSoothsaying; prophecy.

    The foolish system of ariolation is much practised by the primitive Papuas, previously to entering into any undertaking.

    1842, The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal, page 60
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    Thus the Priests of Elder time, have put upon them many incredible conceits, […] deluding their apprehensions with Ariolation, South saying, and such oblick Idolatries […]

    1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3

    […] belongs to the technical part of divination, and may be reckoned for an Art, as well as any other sort of Ariolation.

    1685, Francis Rous, Seven Books of the Attick Antiquities, page 323

Origin

  1. Latinariolari
  2. Englishariolation

From (the stem of) Latin ariolari, hariolari, from hariolus (“soothsayer”) + -ation.

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APA

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Chicago

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