Meaning of DIVINATORY
| Pronunciation: | | di'vinu`towree
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| | Definition: | | [adj] resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" |
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| | Synonyms: | | mantic, prophetic, prophetical, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| | Definition: | | \Di*vin"a*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. divinatoire.]
Professing, or relating to, divination. ``A natural
divinatory instinct.'' --Cowley.
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| | Related Terms: | | anticipant, anticipatory, apocalyptic, augural, auguring, clairvoyant, farseeing, farsighted, fatidic, forecasting, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, foretelling, forethoughted, forethoughtful, forewarning, fortunetelling, haruspical, intuitive, longsighted, mantic, oracular, precognitive, precognizant, predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, prepared, presageful, presaging, prescient, presignificative, presignifying, prognostic, prognosticative, prophetic, provident, providential, prudent, ready, sagacious, sibyllic, sibylline, vaticinal, vaticinatory, weather-wise |
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