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Definition of Diviner
1. Noun. Someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers.
Generic synonyms: Illusionist, Seer, Visionary
Derivative terms: Divine, Divine
Definition of Diviner
1. n. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.
Definition of Diviner
1. Noun. One who foretells the future. ¹
2. Noun. One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diviner
1. one that divines [n -S] - See also: divines
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diviner
Literary usage of Diviner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to the History of Religions by Crawford Howell Toy (1913)
"Ecstasy means possession by the deity; the interpretation of the diviner's words,
which, in the ecstatic condition, are the words of a spirit or a god, ..."
2. The Essential Kafir by Dudley Kidd (1904)
"John went to consult a diviner about his sister's illness. The account is given
by a native as follows : " John, for example, went to inquire of a diviner ..."
3. The Religious System of the Amazulu: Izinyanga Zokubula; Or, Divination, as by Henry Callaway (1884)
"If any thing is lost, an ox for instance, they go to a diviner, ... But if they
do not find it where he says, they say, the diviner is false ; he does not ..."
4. Songs and Tales from the Dark Continent: The Authoritative 1920 Classic by C. Kamba Simango, Madikane Q̂andeya Čele (1920)
"He sends for the diviner. Perhaps he suspects some man of having bewitched him;
or perhaps if he himself be guilty of having killed another man by ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"hibition of prophecies: notwithstanding the supposed sanctity of diviner., predictions
have been rendered penal, because they unsettle men's minds, ..."
6. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"With that they parted with enmity, and no cheer at all. [Of course Cadran is
baptized.] diviner came to him in a vision, and with downcast countenance and ..."
7. The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of by Samuel Shuckford (1808)
"... strictly speaking, a priest, but a diviner from the entrails of victim*.
Thus Achilles in Homer,e when (he pestilence raged in the Grecian camp, ..."
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