Meaning of DIVINER
| Pronunciation: | | di'vInur
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| | Definition: | | [n] someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers |
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| | See Also: | | dowser, magician, necromancer, oracle, prophet, seer, sorcerer, vaticinator, water witch, wizard | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Di*vin"er\, n.
1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict
events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.
The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false
dreams; they comfort in vain. --Zech. x. 2.
2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things.
--Locke.
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| | Related Terms: | | astrologer, augur, calamity howler, Cassandra, Comus, conjurer, crystal gazer, diabolist, divinator, divineress, dowser, Druid, Faust, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller, geomancer, haruspex, miracle-worker, necromancer, palmist, predictor, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic, pythoness, religious prophets, seer, seeress, soothsayer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, vates, warlock, water witch, weather prophet, wizard |
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