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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



... disposed to question the discernment of the person who asserted it: yet now I am as perfectly convinced of the fact as it is possible to be, and had he paid this visit before affliction had assailed me, he would not, I am convinced, have revealed his own grief. Yes, affliction is like the divinatory wand, whose touch discovers deep-buried springs the existence of which ...
— The Idler in France • Marguerite Gardiner


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