单词 | diviner |
释义 | divinern. 1. a. One who practises divination; a soothsayer, prophet, seer; a magician, sorcerer. 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 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8107 Þus seide alle my dyuinours. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xviii. 10 Ne be foundun in thee..that askith dyvynours. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. xxvii. 9 Dyuyneris by chiteryng and fleyng of briddis. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 234 b/2 The deuynour had told hym that he shold deye within fyue dayes. 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (v.) f. 70v He fled to his wyse-men of the worlde, to his diuines & charmers. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 649 The Tages [margin: Divinour or Prophet] of the Britans, I meane Merlin. 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 8 The Peoples Prayer, the glad Diviners Theam, The Young-mens Vision, and the Old mens Dream! 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 524 Vain diviners' dreams divert her fears. 1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury (1869) I. v. 223 The bishops..were required..to banish..diviners and fortune-tellers. 1881 Folk-lore Rec. 4 106 Very lately an eminent man..employed a diviner to look for mines on his property with a divining rod. b. A successful conjecturer or guesser. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > [noun] > one who guesses > successfully diviner1690 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. i. 43 He must be a notable Diviner of Thoughts, that can assure him, that he was thinking. 1856–61 F. D. Maurice Critics in Friendship Bks. (1874) xiii. 377 Richard Bentley was one of the subtlest diviners of the meaning of obscure passages. a. A divine, a theologian. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > theologian > [noun] diviner1377 theologian1483 theologuea1500 theologicianc1560 theologer1588 theologist1641 divine1662 theologant1678 pantheologist1727 anthroposophist1851 theologizer1857–8 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 452 Þe doughtiest doctour and deuynoure of þe trinitee Was augustyn þe olde. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 114 Sire doctour..What is dowel and dobet? ȝe deuynours knoweth. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvi. 85 This doctor and diuinour and decretistre of canon. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Diuinour or wryter of holy scripture, agiographus. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > [noun] wise manc888 wisec897 witec900 snoterc950 divinera1387 sage1399 mage?a1425 wisdom1432 wizardc1440 sapientc1550 Solomon1554 oracle1579 sophy1587 Solon1631 sapientipotent1656 magus1700 wiseacre1753 sageshipa1832 Yoda1984 society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > theologian > [noun] > non-Christian divinea1387 divinera1387 theologian1603 theologer1609 theologista1638 theologizer1686 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 65 Thales..þis naturel philosofer and dyuynour. a1400–50 Alexander 1545 Doctours & diuinours & othire dere maistris. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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