Divinatory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Divinatory \Di*vin"a*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. divinatoire.]
     Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory
     instinct." --Cowley.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  divinatory
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {mantic}, {sibylline},
               {sibyllic}, {vatic}, {vatical}]
       2: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence;
          "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still
          highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his
          absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead
          languages"; "supposititious hypotheses" [syn: {conjectural},
           {supposed}, {suppositional}, {suppositious}, {supposititious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "divinatory":
     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