Scry Definition

skrī
scried, scries, scrying
verb
To practice crystal gazing.
Webster's New World
To see or predict the future by means of a crystal ball.
American Heritage
noun

A flock of wildfowl.

Wiktionary
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Origin of Scry

  • From descry < Middle English decrien < Old French descrier

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  • Middle English ascrie

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  • Short for descry

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Scry Sentence Examples

  • Much depends on what the "seer" is accustomed to use, and some persons who can "scry" in a glass ball or a glass waterbottle cannot "scry" in ink.

  • People who cannot scry may have these hypnagogic illusions, and, so far, may partly understand the experience of the scryer who is wide awake.

  • Many subjects with strong powers of "visualization," or seeing things "in the mind's eye," cannot scry; others are successful in various degrees.

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