to strike someone

livestock farm; ranch

augury, divination, scrying, fortune-telling, particularly using trigrams / a fortune or prophecy so told

to augur, to divine, to scry, to tell a fortune, particularly using trigrams

clergyman, pastor, minister, etc.

fortune-telling or divination using tortoise shell and bamboo divination sticks

Asiatic pennywort, gotu kola (Centella asiatica)

a specific kind of platform geta (wooden clog sandal) worn by maiko (apprentice geisha) during their apprenticeship, with a straight vertical heel and an angled toe (see the image), often lacquered in either black or red

beating to death

to beat to death