sortilege
noun
the drawing of lots for divination; divination by lot.
sortilegious
-
a word derived from
sortilege.
Example Sentences
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Apart from this cause, however, the result of sortilegious acts must needs be ascribed to chance, or to some directing spiritual cause.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
