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Divinatory

adjective
1.
Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.  Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical.  "Mantic powers" , "A kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
2.
Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence.  Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious.  "The supposed reason for his absence" , "Suppositious reconstructions of dead languages" , "Hypothetical situation"






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"Divinatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... this ferreting and divinatory Irishman! Of course Miss Ingate must have committed some indiscretion, or was it that Aguilar was less astute than he gave the impression of being? Audrey considered that all was lost, and she was aware of a most unpleasant feeling of helplessness ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett



Words linked to "Divinatory" :   theoretical, prophetical, theoretic, prophetic, divine, hypothetical, supposed



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