sortes
sortes divination, or the seeking of guidance, by chance selection of a passage in the Bible (sortes Biblicae) or another text regarded as authoritative (sortes Virgilianae). Recorded from the late 16th century, the word is Latin, and means ‘chance selections (of the Bible or other chosen work)’.
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