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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 sooth·say·ing /-ˌseɪŋ/
 占卜,預言

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sooth·say·ing, n.
 1. A true saying; truth. [Obs.]
 2. The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.
    A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.   --Acts xvi. 16.
 3. A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.
    Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain.   --Eclus. xxxiv. 5.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 soothsaying
      n : the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by
          supernatural means [syn: divination, foretelling, fortune
           telling]