DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.

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• ALTAR, n. The place whereupon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods.
  The word is now seldom used, except with reference...
• COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff. -- Ambrose Bierce,
  "The Devil's...
• AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors -
  to dislodge the worms. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's...
• APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
  Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's...
• DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.
  Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's...
• RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
  Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's...
• RASCAL, n. A fool considered under another aspect.
  Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's...
• VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
  Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's...
• ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult.
  The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, -- _exoteric_...