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Definition of Sortes

Sortes
Sors Sors, n.; pl. Sortes. [L.] A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots. Sortes Homeric[ae] or Virgilian[ae] [L., Homeric or Virgilian lots], a form of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in taking the first passage on which the eye fell, upon opening a volume of Homer or Virgil, or a passage drawn from an urn which several were deposited, as indicating future events, or the proper course to be pursued. In later times the Bible was used for the same purpose by Christians.
Sortes
Sortes Sor"tes, n., pl. of Sors.

Meaning of Sortes from wikipedia

- Sortes is a civil parish in the muni****lity of Bragança, Portugal. The po****tion in 2011 was 296, in an area of 21.30 km². Instituto Nacional de Estatística...
- serving a Ptolemaic king. While other sortes (means of fortune-telling) involved the casting of dice, the Sortes Astrampsychi did not. Instead, a questioner...
- list of elements Mainframe sort merge, sort utility for IBM mainframe systems Sort (Unix), which sorts the lines of a file Sort (C++), a function in the...
- Look up sorted in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sorted may refer to: Sorted (TV series), a BBC television series "Sorted for E's & Wizz", a 1995 Pulp...
- Sortes (Latin singular: sors) were a frequent method of divination among the ancient Romans. The method involved the drawing of lots (sortes) to obtain...
- Sorting refers to ordering data in an increasing or decreasing manner according to some linear relationship among the data items. ordering: arranging...
- text was sometimes known as the Sortes Apostolorum, a title it shares with at least two other texts. The term Sortes Sanctorum has a long history of being...
- was common in late antiquity and had pagan precedents in the Sortes Homericae and Sortes Vergilianae. It was nevertheless condemned by numerous church...
- sorter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sorter may refer to: Sorter (logistics), a system that sorts products according to destination Card sorter...
- In computer science, a sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list into an order. The most frequently used orders are numerical order...