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UK
/dɪvˈɪnɐ/
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NOUN
- someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers
How To Use diviner In A Sentence
- Let us therefore proceed to the deeper and diviner, that is, to the interior and intrinsic authority of the Church of Christ. The Grounds of Faith: Four Lectures.
- Every decision surrounding the production was made after Norbu carefully consulted with yogis, oracles and diviners.
- Miltas the diviner, standing up in the midst of the assembly, bade them be of good cheer, and expect all happy success, for that the divine powers foreshowed that something at present glorious and resplendent should be eclipsed and obscured; nothing at this time being more splendid than the sovereignty of Dionysius, their arrival in Sicily should dim this glory, and extinguish this brightness. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- This of old was accounted a prefiguration and mystical pointing out of the Pythian divineress, who used always, before the uttering of a response from the oracle, to shake a branch of her domestic laurel. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
- Two at least are needed for oneness; and the greater the number of individuals, the greater, the lovelier, the richer, the diviner is the possible unity. Unspoken Sermons Second Series
- ‘citess’, ‘divineress’ (both in Dryden); ‘deaness’ (Sterne); English Past and Present
- Traditional practitioners include herbalists, bone setters, diviners, and ritual specialists who may supplicate spirits or ancestors.
- ‘citess’, ‘divineress’ (both in Dryden); ‘deaness’ (Sterne); English Past and Present
- They ask soothsayers and diviners to find out the cause of problems and to suggest remedies.
- First, he is the purifier or purger or absolver (apolouon); secondly, he is the true diviner, Aplos, as he is called in the Thessalian dialect Cratylus