Lexic.us

Definition of Divinatory

1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy. "A kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"

2. Adjective. Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence. "Hypothetical situation"

Definition of Divinatory

1. a. Professing, or relating to, divination.

Definition of Divinatory

1. Adjective. Pertaining to divination. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Divinatory

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Divinatory

dividing dividing(a) dividing line dividingly dividings dividivi dividivis dividual dividually dividuous

divinable divination divinations divinator divinators divinatory (current term) divine divine guidance divine intervention divine interventions

divine law divine messenger divine polity divine proportion divine right divine right of kings divine service divined divinelike divinely

Literary usage of Divinatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... were considered channels of divine communication and were employed in divinatory art. Where observation had shown that a certain environment produced ..."

2. Introduction to the History of Religions by Crawford Howell Toy (1913)
"... critics of the national life, and moral watchmen; but features of the old conception of divinatory power continue for some time to attach to them.6 908. ..."

3. Babylonian Horoscopes by Francesca Rochberg (1998)
"RELIGIOUS AND divinatory CONTEXT Apart from the content of a typical horoscope relevant to the astronomical positions on the birthdate, ..."

4. Four English Humourists of the Nineteenth Century by William Samuel Lilly (1895)
"... so speak—of practical life, of all its conditions, and of all its contrasts. Like Balzac, too, he possessed a certain divinatory power, a sort of gift ..."

5. The Lives of John Selden, Esq., and Archbishop Usher: With Notices of the by John Aikin (1812)
"... namely, the lawful use of lots or games of chance for amusement, and the unlawfulness of divinatory lots. His work on this subject was entitled, ..."

6. The Foregleams of Christianity: An Essay on the Religious History of Antiquity by Charles Newton Scott (1893)
"ALL revelation of Deity to man is either external, from a sense of Deity in what is outside of us, internal, from a sense of Deity within us, or divinatory, ..."

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