divinatory

ADJECTIVE
  1. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
    suppositious reconstructions of dead languages
    hypothetical situation
    the supposed reason for his absence
    theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural
  2. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
    a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
    mantic powers
    the high priest's divinatory pronouncement
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How To Use divinatory In A Sentence

  • There is no shred of doubt that their set of divinatory beliefs are related and we also know that the Babylonian pantheon is rich and complex too. Archive 2007-02-01
  • Note 288: A divinatory practice of letter combination and number mysticism that investigates sacred mysteries, calculates the names of god, and foretells the future. back Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • An energy surge of some kind was taking place during the divinatory process.
  • However, using an oracle or some divinatory method, we gain a wider perspective of The Now and can find the item/person.
  • He provides a useful overview of divinatory techniques, astrology, and so on to demarcate these from precognition.
  • This magical pattern is, oddly enough, an abstract representation of the "bowels of the earth" and a reference to both the divinatory practice of extispicy and an ancient conception of the journey of the sun under the horizon during the course of the night2. Archive 2009-03-01
  • It's quite probable that the earliest board games had divinatory significance - so this much later linkage of playing cards/fortune telling is like a distant echo of practices having much greater significance in the past. Archive 2008-02-01
  • There is a reading there to be taken in which the robot's faith in its divinatory technique is mere wish-fulfilment. Archive 2008-02-01
  • Is it possible, then, that the mirror-tablet at Urbino reflects the speculative aspect of Prudence, providing a key to divinatory practices by Federico's astrologers? Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • One would think that, on the basis of that commonality, invoking Scathach and Odhinn for a divinatory ritual would present no problems.
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