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ID: 300207879
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300207879

 

Record Type: concept
divination (occult sciences, disciplines (concept), Disciplines (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Art or practice of obtaining secret knowledge or foretelling future events by employing supernatural or magical sources, omens, or oracles; it is based on the belief that revelations are offered to humans in extrarational forms of knowledge.
 
Terms:
divination (preferred,C,U,LC,English-P,D,U,U)
divinatory (C,U,English,AD,U,U)
占卜 (學科) (C,U,Chinese (traditional)-P,D,U,U)
占卜學 (C,U,Chinese (traditional),UF,U,U)
zhān bǔ (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin)-P,UF,U,U)
zhan bu (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones)-P,UF,U,U)
chan pu (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Wade-Giles)-P,UF,U,U)
waarzeggerij (C,U,Dutch-P,D,U,U)
predictie (C,U,Dutch,UF,U,U)
wichelarij (C,U,Dutch,UF,U,U)
adivinación (C,U,Spanish-P,D,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  K.KD

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Activities Facet
Activities Facet
Hierarchy of Disciplines (hierarchy name)
.... Disciplines (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of disciplines (concept)
........ disciplines (concept) (G)
Hierarchy of occult sciences
............ occult sciences (G)
Hierarchy of divination
................ divination (G)

Additional Notes:
Chinese (traditional) ..... 透過神聖的消息來源、預兆或神諭,預知未來事件或得知秘密訊息;其信仰基礎為相信天啟是一種將知識傳達給人類的超理性形式。 
Dutch ..... De kunst of de praktijk van het voorspellen van toekomstige gebeurtenissen of het verkrijgen van geheime kennis door goddelijke bronnen, voortekens of orakels; gebaseerd op het geloof dat openbaringen aan mensen worden gedaan in zich aan de ratio onttrekkende vormen van kennis. 
Spanish ..... Arte o práctica de preveer eventos futuros u obtener conocimientos secretos a través de fuentes divinas, augurios, u oráculos; se basa en la creencia que las revelaciones son ofrecidas a los humanos por formas de conocimiento extra racionales. 

Related concepts:
distinguished from ....  dowsing
..................................  (<exploring and investigating techniques>, <processes and techniques by specific type>, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)) [300128739]
practiced/ studied by ....  diviners
......................................  (<people in the occult sciences>, <people by occupation>, ... People (hierarchy name)) [300207878]
uses ....  divination objects
........  (<object genres by function>, object genres (object classifications), Object Genres (hierarchy name)) [300263039]

Sources and Contributors:
占卜 (學科)............  [AS-Academia Sinica Preferred]
.................  大英百科全書線上繁體中文版 February 4, 2012
.................  智慧藏百科全書網 February 4, 2012
.................  當代文化人類學 p. 826
占卜學............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
...........  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
adivinación............  [CDBP-SNPC Preferred, VP]
.......................  Moliner, Diccionario de uso del español (2004) I:56
.......................  TAA database (2000-)
chan pu............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
divination............  [VP Preferred]
.......................  CDMARC Subjects: LCSH (1988-)
.......................  Concise Columbia Encyclopedia (1983) 236
.......................  Contributed as a candidate term Candidate term - AFRART - 10/91; 08/24/93
.......................  Drury, Dictionary of Mysticism (1985) 65
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1991) Vol. 2, 85, in entry "occultism"
.......................  Random House Dictionary of the English Language (1987)
.......................  Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms (1986)
.......................  Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961)
.......................  World Book Encyclopedia (1982) Vol. 5, 197
divinatory............  [VP]
.......................  Contributed as a candidate term Candidate comment -- NALLON -- 5/3/94; requested as ALT.
.......................  Oxford English Dictionary (1989)
.......................  Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1993)
.......................  Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961)
predictie............  [RKD, AAT-Ned]
....................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
....................  Van Dale Engels-Nederlands (1989)
....................  Van Dale groot woordenboek (1994)
waarzeggerij............  [RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred]
.......................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
.......................  Van Dale Engels-Nederlands (1989)
.......................  Van Dale groot woordenboek (1994)
wichelarij............  [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
.......................  Van Dale Engels-Nederlands (1989)
.......................  Van Dale groot woordenboek (1994)
zhan bu............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
zhān bǔ............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
 
Subject: .....  [AS-Academia Sinica, CDBP-SNPC, RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
............  Encyclopedia of Religion (1987) Vol. 9, 105, in esay on "magic;" divinatory magic
............  Van Dale Engels-Nederlands (1989)
............  Van Dale groot woordenboek (1994)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Concise Columbia Encyclopedia (1983)
Chinese (traditional) .......... [AS-Academia Sinica]
.......... AS-Academia Sinica data (2014-)
Dutch .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......... AAT-Ned (1994-)
.......... Van Dale Engels-Nederlands (1989)
.......... Van Dale groot woordenboek (1994)
Spanish .......... [CDBP-SNPC]
.......... TAA database (2000-)

 

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