Usually means: Ancient divination method using texts.
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  5. Sortes (ancient Rome): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Sortes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. sortes: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  10. Sortes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  divination, or the seeking of guidance, by chance selection of a passage in the Bible or another text regarded as authoritative.

Similar:
kind, classify, class, assort, form, variety, sort out, separate, screen out, screen, more...

Opposite:
nigrescence, chaos, disorder, confusion, disarray

Phrases:
sortes homericae, Sortes Vergilianae, more...



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Similar:
kind, classify, class, assort, form, variety, sort out, separate, screen out, screen, more...

Opposite:
nigrescence, chaos, disorder, confusion, disarray

Phrases:
sortes homericae, Sortes Vergilianae, more...



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