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单词 diviner
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divinern.

/dɪˈvʌɪnə/
Forms: Middle English devinor, devynour, dyvynour, Middle English–1600s divinour, Middle English– diviner.
Etymology: Middle English and Anglo-Norman devinour, divinour = Old French devineor , -eour , -ur (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), agent-noun from French deviner to divine v., corresponding to Latin dīvīnātōr-em divinator n. Down to 1500 regularly stressed ˌdeviˈnour , ˈdeviˌnour . In sense 2, apparently < French devin, divin, noun: compare philosoph-er.
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
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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.
2.
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.
b. = divine n.2 2b; also, a wise man, sage.
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.
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