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English
Etymology
From Latin plural of sors (“lot, fate, oracular response”).
Noun
sortes pl (plural only)
- divination, or the seeking of guidance, by chance selection of a passage in the Bible or another text regarded as authoritative.
- 2014, AnneMarie Luijendijk, “Introduction”, in Forbidden Oracles? The Gospel of the Lots of Mary (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity; 89)[1], Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebek, →ISBN, page 3:
- Book oracles, called sortes (from the Latin sors = lot, indicating that one would obtain the answers by casting lots), allowed for consultation on the spot; the oracle could even come to the petitioner!
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French
Noun
sortes f
Verb
sortes
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Latin
Noun
sortēs f
References
- “sortes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sortes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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