the drawing of lots for divination; divination by lot.
2.
sorcery; magic.
Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin sortilegium, for Latin sortilegus, equivalent to sort- (stem of sors) lot, chance + -i--i- + -legus (derivative of legere to read, count, choose out); see -ium
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.