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ADJECTIVE (2)

1. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy;
- Example: "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"
- Example: "mantic powers"
- Example: "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
[syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical]

2. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence;
- Example: "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"
- Example: "the supposed reason for his absence"
- Example: "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"
- Example: "hypothetical situation"
[syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Divinatory \Di*vin"a*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. divinatoire.]
   Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory
   instinct." --Cowley.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

divinatory
    adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy;
           "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic
           powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and
           infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory,
           mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical]
    2: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence;
       "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly
       conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence";
       "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages";
       "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory,
       hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional,
       suppositious, supposititious]