FromLatin plural ofsors(“lot, fate, oracular response”).

sortes pl (plural only)

1. divination, or the seeking ofguidance, bychanceselection of apassage in theBible or anothertext regarded asauthoritative.
   • 2014, AnneMarie Luijendijk, “Introduction”, inForbidden Oracles? The Gospel of the Lots of Mary (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity;89)‎^[1], Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebek,→ISBN, page 3:

     Book oracles, calledsortes (from the Latin sors = lot, indicating that one would obtain the answers by casting lots), allowed for consultation on the spot; the oracle could even come to the petitioner!

• sortes Biblicae
• sortes Homericae
• sortes Virgilianae

• RTOSes,Restos,Sostre,restos,retoss,rosest,rosets,sorest,stores,torses,tosser,tsores

sortes f

1. plural ofsorte

sortes

1. second-personsingularpresentsubjunctive ofsortir

• restos,stores

sortēs f

1. nominative/accusative/vocativeplural ofsors

• “sortes”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sortes”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

sortes

1. plural ofsorte