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divinatory a. 占卦的 占卦的 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" [ synonym: { divinatory}, { 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"; " hypothetical situation" [ synonym: { conjectural}, { divinatory}, { hypothetical}, { hypothetic}, { supposed}, { suppositional}, { suppositious}, { supposititious}] Divinatory \ Di* vin" a* to* ry\, a. [ Cf. F. divinatoire.] Professing, or relating to, divination. " A natural divinatory instinct." -- Cowley. [ 1913 Webster] 50 Moby Thesaurus words for " divinatory": anticipant, anticipatory, apocalyptic, augural, auguring, clairvoyant, farseeing, farsighted, fatidic, forecasting, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, foretelling, forethoughted, forethoughtful, forewarning, fortunetelling, haruspical, intuitive, longsighted, mantic, oracular, precognitive, precognizant, predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, prepared, presageful, presaging, prescient, presignificative, presignifying, prognostic, prognosticative, prophetic, provident, providential, prudent, ready, sagacious, sibyllic, sibylline, vaticinal, vaticinatory, weather- wise
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