sortilege in English

noun
1
the practice of foretelling the future from a card or other item drawn at random from a collection.
Some descriptions made technology assessment sound like blustery sortilege ; others made it out to be a highly systematic and methodical process, with strict rules and procedures, tools and models.

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1. He had recourse to every superstition of sortilege, clairvoyance, presentiment, and dreams.