divinatory
- adjective
- /ˈdɪvɪnətɔri/
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adivinatorio
- In ancient times, people used divinatory tools like tarot cards to gain insight into their lives.
- divinatory ritual
- divinatory communication
- divinatory knowledge
Examples
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For a middle Byzantine viewer, the branch signaled Apollo's divinatory powers.
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Clearly the Djimini Senufo consider the unique relationship of twins to be the model for divinatory communication: Sharing the same womb experience, twins become endowed with, or constituted of, the same perceptions; hence, they emerge in the world as congruent images.
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If the pips dominate, you are looking at a pretty direct divinatory reading.
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I should add that the diviner and client use hand-holding as the actual divinatory device of communication.
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Even that shift testifies to the dialogic nature of his divinatory encounters.
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Section C is the heart of the divinatory pronouncement and includes identification of the sorcerers and their aims.
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Arabic could also have gained currency as a magic language through the Byzantine translation of Islamic divinatory texts.
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Among the Southern Iroquoian Cherokee, white, black, red, and yellow glass "seed" beads are used in the divinatory treatment of disease.
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The discussion of twins introduces the idea, central to the interpretation of divinatory ritual, that two people can share a perception that does not need to be verbalized to be comprehended.
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Although Ares was not a prominent Greco-Roman oracular deity, divinatory cults were dedicated to him in at least two locations.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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7.4
Saying or showing what will happen in the future, often as if from a spiritual source
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Able to show or guess what will happen in the future
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8.9
Knowing about things before they happen
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To know about an event before it happens
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Saying that something will happen in the future, often by a religious person
Relating to predicting the future, often by signs or dreams
Showing or saying what will happen in the future
Like something that predicts future events
Relating to telling the future by looking at water
Like a warning that seems to predict future events
Suggests or shows what will happen later in a vague, symbolic way
About signs people use to guess the future
Mysterious and hard to understand, like a prophecy
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
divinatory = divination (transparent) = divin + atory
Direct adjectival formation from 'divination', so the meaning 'relating to prophecy/divination' is predictable.
Etymology
Divinatory comes from the Latin divinare 'to foresee', the same root you see in divination and divine. That's why divinatory describes things that try to tell the future, like prophecy or tarot reading.