单词 | divinator |
释义 | divinatorn. Obsolete or archaic. One who divines; a diviner, soothsayer. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun] > practitioner of wielerOE divinerc1330 divine1340 divinisterc1405 ruspicerc1475 sortilegerc1475 sortilege1483 cole-prophet1532 augur1570 divinator1608 sortiary1652 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1608 |
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