Adj. foreseeing &c. v.; prescient; farseeing, farsighted; sagacious &c. (intellig ent) 498; weatherwise[obs3]; provident &c.

(prepared) 673; prospective &c. 507. Adv. against the time when. Phr. cernit omnia Deus vindex[Lat]; mihi cura futuri [Lat]; run it up the flagpole and see who salutes. #511. Prediction. N. prediction, announcement; program, programme &c. (plan) 626[ Brit]; premonition &c. (warning) 668; prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantolo gy[obs3], prognostication, premonstration|; augury, auguration|; ariolation|, ha riolation|; foreboding, aboding[obs3]; bodement[obs3], abodement[obs3]; omniatio n|, omniousness[obs3]; auspices, forecast; omen &c. 512; horoscope, nativity; so oth[obs3], soothsaying; fortune telling, crystal gazing; divination; necromancy &c. 992. [Divination by the stars] astrology[obs3], horoscopy[obs3], judicial as trology1[obs3]. [obs3] adytum[Place of prediction]. prefiguration[obs3], prefigu rement; prototype, type. [person who predicts] oracle &c. 513. V. predict, progn osticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate[obs3], tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn &c. 668. presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure, preshow[obs3]; por tend; foreshow[obs3], foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify[obs3], ominate [obs3], signify, point to. usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower. hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope; bid fair, promi se, lead one to expect; be the precursor &c 64. [predict by mathematical or stat istical means from past experience] extrapolate, project. Adj. predicting &cv.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic[obs3], fatidical[obs3]; vaticinal, oracular, fati loquent[obs3], haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise[obs3]. ominous, portentous, au gurous[obs3], augurial, augural; auspicial[obs3], auspicious; prescious[obs3], m onitory, extispicious[obs3], premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit wit h the fate of. Phr. "coming events cast their shadows before" [Campbell]; dicamu s bona verba[Lat]; "there buds the promise of celestial worth" [Young]. [1] The following terms, expressive of different forms of divination, have been collected from various sources, and are here given as a curious illustration of bygone superstitions:- Divination by oracles, Theomancy[obs3]; by the Bible, Bib liomancy; by ghosts, Psychomancy[obs3]; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy[obs3]; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy[obs3], Cha omancy[obs3]; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy[obs3] ; by winds, Austromancy[obs3]; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspic y)[obs3], Hieromancy[obs3], Hieroscopy[obs3]; by the entrails of animals sacrifi ced, Extispicy[obs3], Hieromancy[obs3]; by the entrails of a human sacrifice, An thropomancy[obs3]; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy[obs3]; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy[obs3]; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy[obs3]; by smoke from the al tar, Capnomancy[obs3]; by mice, Myomancy[obs3]; by birds, Orniscopy[obs3], Ornit homancy[obs3]; by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy (or Alectromancy)[obs3 ]; by fishes, Ophiomancy[obs3]; by herbs, Botanomancy[obs3]; by water, Hydromanc y[obs3]; by fountains, Pegomancy[obs3]; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of cake s, Crithomancy[obs3]; by meal, Aleuromancy[obs3], Alphitomancy[obs3]; by salt, H alomancy[obs3]; by dice, Cleromancy[obs3]; by arrows, Belomancy[obs3]; by a bala nced hatchet, Axinomancy[obs3]; by a balanced sieve, Coscinomancy[obs3]; by a su spended ring, Dactyliomancy[obs3]; by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy[obs 3]; by precious stones, Lithomancy[obs3]; by pebbles, Pessomancy[obs3]; by pebbl es drawn from a heap, Psephomancy[obs3]; by mirrors, Catoptromancy[obs3]; by wri tings in ashes, Tephramancy[obs3]; by dreams, Oneiromancy[obs3]; by the hand, Pa lmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy[obs3]; by f inger rings, Dactylomancy[obs3]; by numbers, Arithmancy[obs3]; by drawing lots, Sortilege[obs3]; by passages in books, Stichomancy[obs3]; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy[obs3], Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy [obs3]; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy[obs3]; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy[ obs3]; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy[obs3]; by dropping melted wax into wate r, Ceromancy[obs3]; by currents, Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wi ne, Oenomancy[obs3].

< p. 153 > #512. Omen. N. omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign &c. (indication) 550; harbinger &c. (precursor) 64; yule candle|!. bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning &c. 668. prefigurement &c. 511. Adj. ill-boding. Phr. auspicium melioris aevi[Lat][obs3]. #513. Oracle. N. oracle; prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune te ller, crystal gazer[obs3], witch, geomancer[obs3], aruspex[obs3]; aruspice[obs3] , haruspice[obs3]; haruspex; astrologer, star gazer[obs3]; Sibyl; Python, Python ess[obs3]; Pythia; Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle; Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, C assandra[obs3], Sibylline leaves; Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer &c. 994; interpre ter &c. 524. [person who predicts by non-mystical (natural) means] predictor, pr ognosticator, forecaster; weather forecaster, weatherman. Phr. a prophet is with out honor in his own country; "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" [Bob Dylan]. % SECTION VII. CREATIVE THOUGHT % #514. Supposition. N. supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, con dition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum[L at], theory; thesis, theorem; data; proposition, position; proposal &c. (plan) 6 26; presumption &c. (belief) 484; divination. conjecture; guess, guesswork, spec ulation; rough guess, shot, shot in the dark [coll.]; conjecturality[obs3]; surm ise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion; estimate, approximation (nearness) 197. inkl ing, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression; bare supposition, vague s upposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion. association of ideas, (analogy) 514a; metonym[Gram], metonymy[Gram], simile (metaphor) 521. conceit, idea, thou ght; original idea, invention (imagination) 515. V. suppose, conjecture, surmise , suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise[obs3], presuppose; assum e, fancy, wis[obs3], take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take i t into one's head, take for granted; imagine &c. 515. put forth; propound, propo se; start, put a case, submit, move, make a motion; hazard out, throw out a sugg estion, put forward a suggestion, put forward conjecture. allude to, suggest, hi nt, put it into one's head. suggest itself &c. (thought) 451; run in the head &c . (memory) 505; marvel if, wonder if, wonder whether. Adj. supposing &c. v.; giv en, mooted, postulatory[obs3]; assumed &c. v.; supposititious, suppositive[obs3] , suppositious; gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative; suppositional. suggestive, allusiv e. Adv. if, if so be; an; on the supposition &c. n.;ex hypothesi[Lat]; in the ca se, in the event of; quasi, as if, provided; perhaps &c. (by possibility) 470; f or aught one knows. < p. 154 > < under creative thought we should include a separate section on analogy, metaphor, association etc. distinct from 521?? > #514a. Analogy N. analogy, association, association of ideas. metaphor &c. 521. analogical thinking; free association; train of thought. Adj. analogical. #515. Imagination. N. imagination; originality; invention; fancy; inspiration; v erve. warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagin ation, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imaginat ion, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imaginati

on, fertile imagination, fancy. "mind's eye"; "such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest]. ideality, idealism; romanticism, utopianism, castle-building. dreami ng; phrensy[obs3], frenzy; ecstasy, extasy[obs3]; calenture &c. (delirium) 503[o bs3]; reverie, trance; day dream, golden dream; somnambulism. conception, Vorste llung[Ger], excogitation[obs3], "a fine frenzy"; cloudland[obs3], dreamland; fli ght of fancy, fumes of fancy; "thick coming fancies" [Macbeth]; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery. conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vis ion, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey[obs3], w himsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest[obs3], geste[obs3], extravaganza; air dra wn dagger, bugbear, nightmare. flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the mo on, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne[Fr]; Utopi a, Atlantis[obs3], happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, ki ngdom of Micomicon; work of fiction &c. (novel) 594; Arabian nights[obs3]; le po t au lait[Fr]; dream of Alnashar &c. (hope) 858[obs3]. illusion &c. (error) 495; phantom &c. (fallacy of vision) 443; Fata Morgana &c. (ignis fatuus) 423[Lat]; vapor &c. (cloud) 353; stretch of the imagination &c. (exaggeration) 549; mythog enesis[obs3]. idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus[obs3]; romancer, dreamer; somnambulist; rhapsodist &c. (fanatic) 504; castle-buildier, fanciful projector. V. imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream up; "giv e to airy nothing a local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's Dream]. crea te, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate; improvise, strike out something new. set one's wits to work; strain one's invention, crack one's invention; rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains; excogitate[obs3]; brai nstorm. give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy; indulge in reverie. visualize, envision, conjure up a vision; fancy oneself, rep resent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself; vorstellen[Ger]. fl oat in the mind; suggest itself &c. (thought) 451. Adj. imagined &c. v.; ben tro vato[It]; air drawn, airbuilt[obs3]. imagining &cv. v, imaginative; original, in ventive, creative, fertile. romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic. ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus[Lat]; unsubsantial[obs3] &c. 4; illusory &c. (fallacious) 495. fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical; imaginary, visionary; no tional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical[obs3]; whimsical; fairy, fairy-l ike; gestic[obs3]. Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; aeg ri somnia vana[Lat][obs3]; dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum [obs3][L atin][Horace]; "fancy light from fancy caught" [Tennyson]; "imagination rules th e world" [Napoleon]; l'imagination gallope[Fr], le jugement ne va que le pas[Fre nch]; musaeo contingens cuncta lepore [Latin][Lucretius]; tous songes sont menso nges[French]; Wahrheil und Dichtung[German]. % DIVISION (II) COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS SECTION I. NATURE OF IDEAS COMMUNICATED. % #516. [Idea to be conveyed.] Meaning. [Thing signified.] N. meaning; significati on, significance; sense, expression; import, purport; force; drift, tenor, spiri t, bearing, coloring; scope. [important part of the meaning] substance; gist, es sence, marrow, spirit &c. 5. matter; subject, subject matter; argument, text, su m and substance. general meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning, unstr ained meaning, true &c. (exact) 494 meaning, honest &c. 543 meaning, prima facie &c. (manifest) 525 meaning[Lat]; letter of the law. literally; after acceptatio n. synonym; implication, allusion &c. (latency) 526; suggestion &c. (information ) 527; figure of speech &c. 521; acceptation &c. (interpretation) 522. V. mean, signify, express; import, purport; convey, imply, breathe, indicate, bespeak, be ar a sense; tell of, speak of; touch on; point to, allude to; drive at; involve &c. (latency) 526; declare &c. (affirm) 535. understand by &c. (interpret) 522. Adj. meaning &c. v.; expressive, suggestive, allusive; significant, significativ e[obs3], significatory[obs3]; pithy; full of meaning, pregnant with meaning. dec laratory &c. 535; intelligible &c. 518; literal; synonymous; tantamount &c. (equ ivalent) 27; implied &c. (latent) 526; explicit &c. 525. Adv. to that effect; th

at is to say &c. (being interpreted) 522. < p. 155 > #517. [Absence of meaning.] Unmeaningness. N. meaninglessness, unmeaningness &c. adj[obs3].; scrabble. empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil[Lat]; "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"; "sounding b rass and a tinkling cymbal." nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber , mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery , verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin[obs3], platitude, niaiserie[obs3]; inan ity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae[Lat]; twaddle, t wattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; poppy-cock [U.S.]; stuff, stuff and nonse nse; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity &c. 497; vagu eness &c. (unintelligibility) 519. [routine or reflexive statements without subs tantive thought, esp. legal] boilerplate. V. mean nothing; be unmeaning &c. adj. ; twaddle, quibble, scrabble. Adj. unmeaning; meaningless, senseless; nonsensica l; void of sense &c. 516. inexpressive, unexpressive; vacant; not significant &c . 516; insignificant. trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling , quibbling. unmeant, not expressed; tacit &c. (latent) 526. inexpressible, unde finable, incommunicable. #518. Intelligibility. N. intelligibility; clearness, explicitness &c. adj.; lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain speaking &c. (manifestation) 525; precision &c. 494; <gr/phonanta synetoisy/gr>[Grk][Grk]; a word to the wise. V. be intelligible &c. adj.; speak for itself, speak volumes; tell its own tale, lie on the surface. render intelligible &c. adj.; popularize, simplify, clear up; elucidate &c. (explain) 522. understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect, master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter into the ideas of; come to an understanding. Adj. intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid; perspicuous, transpicuous[obs3]; luminous, transparent. easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the meanest capacity, popularized. plain, distinct, explicit; positive; definite &c. (precise) 494. graphic; expressive &c. (meaning) 516; illustrative &c. (explanatory) 522. unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable &c. (manifest) 525; unconfused; legible, recognizable; obvious &c. 525. Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English. Phr. he that runs may read &c. (manifest) 525. #519. Unintelligibility. N. unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity [obs3]; inconceivableness, vagueness &c. adj.; obscurity; ambiguity &c. 520; dou btful meaning; uncertainty &c. 475; perplexity &c. (confusion) 59; spinosity[obs 3]; obscurum per obscurius[Lat]; mystification &c. (concealment) 528; latency &c . 526; transcendentalism. paradox, oxymoron; riddle, enigma, puzzle &c. (secret) 533; diagnus vindice nodus[Lat]; sealed book; steganography[obs3], freemasonry. pons asinorum[Lat], asses' bridge; high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew; jargon &c. (unmea ning) 517.