divinatory : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: divinatory	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for divinatory
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
divinatory 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" Synonym(s): divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical 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"; "hypothetical situation" Synonym(s): conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Divinatory \Divin"atory\, a. [Cf. F. divinatoire.] Professing, or relating to, divination. [bd]A natural divinatory* instinct.[b8] --Cowley.