verb
- to practice divination by gazing into a crystal ball or other reflective surface
Usage: occult; archaic
Examples
- The fortune teller claimed she could scry the future in her crystal ball.
- Ancient seers would scry by staring into pools of water.
- She learned to scry using a black mirror made of obsidian.
- The mystic spent hours trying to scry visions of distant events.
- Medieval practitioners would scry to locate lost objects.
- He dismissed her ability to scry as mere superstition.