| 单词 | divinatory |
| 释义 | divinatory (once / 147742 pages) adj WORD FAMILY divine: divination, divinatory, divined, divinely, diviner, divines, divinest, divining, diviningly, divinity+/divination: divinations/diviner: diviners/divinity: divinities USAGE EXAMPLESHe carried just two books in his luggage — the Shiji and the I Ching, or Book of Changes, the ancient divinatory text. New York Times(Aug 10, 2011) Ancient Mexico thus furnishes us with an interesting and instructive explanation of the origin of divinatory practices, prognostication at birth, etc. Nuttall, Zelia, The Fundamental Principles of Old a...(2010) It appears to me just as teleologic and divinatory as those I have previously named. Brinton, Daniel Garrison, An Ethnologist's View of History—An...(2010) 1adj resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy the high priest's divinatory pronouncement Syn mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical prophetic, prophetical foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention 2adj based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence Syn circumstantial, conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious theoretic, theoretical concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations |
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