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sortes
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sors \Sors\, n.; pl. Sortes . [L.] A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots. Sortes Homeric[ae] or Sortes Virgilian[ae] [L., Homeric or Virgilian lots], a form of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in taking the first passage on which ...
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Sortes ( Latin singular: sors ) were a frequent method of divination among the ancient Romans . The method involved the drawing of lots ( sortes ) to obtain knowledge of future events: in many of the ancient Italian temples the will of the gods was consulted ...
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n. divination, or the seeking of guidance, by chance selection of a passage in the Bible or another text regarded as authoritative.
Usage examples of sortes.
Sur un autre sujet plus delicat que Dayelle avait traite avec toutes sortes de menagements, elle avait repondu sur le meme ton.
Elle regarde, emerveillee, toutes ces tiges en fleur, et elle voit toutes sortes de petits insectes courir sur les feuilles et sur les fleurs.
Some sitting in straunge fashioned Charriots, and drawne in them by swift Dolphines, crowned and adorned with water Lillies sutable to the furniture of the garnished seates: some with diuers dishes and vessels replenished with many sortes of fruites.
A prime minister of real life, however, could scarcely be seriously recommended to shape his policy upon a due consideration of the possible allegoric meaning of a passage in Isaiah, to say nothing of the obvious objection that this kind of appeal to Sortes Biblicæ is dangerously liable to be turned against those who recommend it.
From the fourth to the fourteenth century, these sortes sanctorum, as they are styled, were repeatedly condemned by the decrees of councils, and repeatedly practised by kings, bishops, and saints.
I was hardly the first person to have recourse to the sortes Virgilianae in time of confusion or trouble.