divinatio

The word divinatio seems to be too strong for the occasion.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

The only way Cicero's fitness to prosecute could be determined was to hold a special hearing called a divinatio – guesswork (so named because the judges at this special hearing reached a conclusion without hard evidence being presented-that is, they arrived at a finding by guesswork).

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

But in the lumbering way of the law, as the summer came on, the process passed through all its various stages—the postulatio, divinatio, and nominas delatio—a jury was selected and a date was fixed for the start of the trial in the last week of July.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

But in the lumbering way of the law, as the summer came on, the process passed through all its various stages—the postulatio, divinatio, and nominas delatio—a jury was selected and a date was fixed for the start of the trial in the last week of July.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

Non est interpretatio, sed divinatio, quae recedit a litera: —

The Advancement of Learning 2003

Cicero and his brother discuss, at Tusculum, the nature and validity of 'divinatio,' which is defined (i. 9) as 'earum rerum quae fortuitae putantur praedictio atque praesensio.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Their respective expressions for the predictive or presentient faculty (_manteia_ and _divinatio_), as

The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

{273} Thus in a _Vocabulary_, 1475: Nigromansia dicitur divinatio facta

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

Non est interpretatio, sed divinatio, quae recedit a litera:

The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593

"Ista sic reciprocantur, ut et si divinatio sit, dii sint; et si dii lint, sit divinatio."

The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562