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单词 divinator
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divinatorn.

Forms: Also 1600s -our.
Etymology: < Latin dīvīnātor, -ōrem soothsayer, agent-noun < dīvīnāre to divine v.: compare French divinateur.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdivinator.
Obsolete or archaic.
One who divines; a diviner, soothsayer.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun] > practitioner of
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1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 134 The Egyptians holde opinion, that the Crocodile is a Diuinatour.
a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) xxxix. 60 When thou goest unto a divinatour.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. i. 715 Of this sort are all superstitious Idolaters,..Diuinators, Prophets, Sectaries, and Scismaticks.
1884 Science 19 Dec. 559/2 In the leading paper of Cambridge, Mass...a professed divinator has kept for years a large, businesslike, and soberly worded advertisement of his services.
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