Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Divinatory \Di*vin"a*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. divinatoire.]
Professing, or relating to, divination. ``A natural
divinatory instinct.'' --Cowley.
Source : WordNet®
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: {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"; "supposititious hypotheses" [syn: {conjectural},
{supposed}, {suppositional}, {suppositious}, {supposititious}]