Found 2 items, similar to divinatory.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: divinatory
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Divinatory
Divinatory
\Di*vin"a*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. divinatoire.]
Professing, or relating to, divination.
“A natural
divinatory instinct.” --Cowley.
[1913 Webster]