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divinatory::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
Examples of divinatory
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There are also white horses which are divinatory, who prophesy or warn of danger.
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He also believes in dowsing but declined a challenge to show his divinatory powers.
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However, the I Ching divinatory tool discloses this as an apparent illusion.
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Children take delight in discovering the objects, which are intended to be divinatory.
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Robert Graves'book The White Goddess has been a major influence on assigning divinatory meanings for ogham.
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So were divinatory techniques such as astrology when used for illicit, subversive or magical purposes.
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Note that none of the divinatory practices denoted by rhabdomancy in English are documented from ancient Greece sources.
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The 260 day calendar was called Tonalpohualli by the Aztecs, and was used primarily for divinatory purposes.
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Rosemary was used as a divinatory herb.
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- 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"
- Conjectural: 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"
- Divination (from Latin divinare "to foresee, to be inspired by a god" , related to divinus, divine) is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of a standardized process or ritual. ...
- Of or relating to divination (see above).
