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DIVINATORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divinatory mean? 

DIVINATORY (adjective)
  The adjective DIVINATORY has 2 senses:

1. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecyplay

2. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidenceplay

  Familiarity information: DIVINATORY used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIVINATORY (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy

Synonyms:

divinatory; mantic; sibyllic; sibylline; vatic; vatical

Context example:

a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions

Similar:

prophetic; prophetical (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention)

Derivation:

divine (perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

Synonyms:

conjectural; divinatory; hypothetic; hypothetical; supposed; suppositional; suppositious; supposititious

Context example:

hypothetical situation

Similar:

theoretic; theoretical (concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations)


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