different between prognostication vs sortilege

English

Etymology

From Old French pronosticacion, from Medieval Latin prognosticatio

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

prognostication (countable and uncountable, plural prognostications)

1. A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
   • 1837, The Dublin University Magazine

     She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old French sortilège, from Medieval Latin sortilegium (“witchcraft”), from Latin sortilegus (“sorcerer, diviner”), from sors (“fate”) + legere (“choose”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??t?l?d??/

Noun

sortilege (countable and uncountable, plural sortileges)

1. Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     We have therefore summoned to our presence a Jewish woman, by name Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York — a woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries.

   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, page 115:

     Orthodox believers […] were less happy about using sortilege to coerce God into taking decisions on their behalf.

   • 2001, JT Leroy, Sarah:

     ‘Too much evil sortilege,’ Glad always says when someone suggests he open a franchise over Cheat Ridge.

Derived terms

• sortilegious

Translations

Latin

Adjective

sortilege

1. vocative masculine singular of sortilegus