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Webster 1913 Edition

Sortes

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Sor′tes

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Definition 2024

sortes

sortes

English

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.

Derived terms

sortes Biblicae
sortes Homericae
sortes Virgilianae

Anagrams

restos, sorest, stores, tosser, tsores

French

Verb

sortes

second-person singular present subjunctive of sortir

Anagrams

restos, stores

Latin

Noun

sortes f

nominative plural of sors
accusative plural of sors
vocative plural of sors

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

Portuguese

Noun

sortes

plural of sorte