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Crystal Gazing

Definition: Crystal Gazing

Crystal Gazing

Noun

1. Staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: Crystal Gazing

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Prediction

Noun: prediction, announcement; program, programme; (plan); premonition; (warning); prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration; augury, auguration; ariolation, hariolation; foreboding, aboding; bodement, abodement; omniation, omniousness; auspices, forecast; omen; horoscope, nativity; sooth, soothsaying; fortune telling, crystal gazing; divination; necromancy.

Divination by oracles, Theomancy; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts, Psychomancy; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy; by winds, Austromancy; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy), Hieromancy, Hieroscopy; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy; by the entrails of a human sacrifice,

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Crystal Gazing

English words defined with "crystal gazing": crystal ball. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Crystal Gazing

DomainTitle

Books

  • Crystal gazing and clairvoyance To which is appended an abridgement of Jacob Dixon's "Hygienic clairvoyance", with various extracts and original notes (reference)

  • Crystal Gazing and the Wonders of Clairvoyance (1910) (reference)

  • Crystal Vision Through Crystal Gazing (1923) (reference)

  • The Mystic Test Book of the "Hindu Occult Chambers" - 1909: The Magic and Occultism of India Hindu and Egyptian Crystal Gazing the Hindu Magic Mirror 1909 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Crystal Gazing

Expression using "crystal gazing": by crystal gazing. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Crystal Gazing

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

crystal gazing

7
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Modern Translation: Crystal Gazing

Language Translations for "crystal gazing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

κρυσταλλομαντεία. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ystalcray azinggay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Crystal Gazing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-g-i-l-n-r-s-t-y-z"

-3 letters: catalyzing, stargazing.

-4 letters: acylating, analytics, antalgics, carnality, gratingly, graylings, rascality, salarying.

-5 letters: alacrity, analytic, antalgic, carlings, castling, catlings, craaling, craggily, czarinas, gangliar, glazings, granitas, gratings, graylags, grayling, grazings, gyrating, nasality, ragingly, sagacity, salacity, sanitary, santalic, scantily, scarting, scraggly, stanzaic, starling, stingray, straggly, straying, tracings, tragical, tzarinas.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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