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DIVINATORY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
Example:
hypothetical situation
Synonyms:
conjectural; divinatory; hypothetic; hypothetical; supposed; suppositional; suppositious; supposititious
Classified under:
Similar:
theoretic; theoretical (concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
Example:
a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
Synonyms:
divinatory; mantic; sibyllic; sibylline; vatic; vatical
Classified under:
Similar:
prophetic; prophetical (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention)
Derivation:
divine (perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers)
