divinatory

divinatory
    adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy;
           "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic
           powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and
           infallible answers to questions" [syn: {divinatory},
           {mantic}, {sibylline}, {sibyllic}, {vatic}, {vatical}]
    2: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence;
       "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly
       conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence";
       "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages";
       "hypothetical situation" [syn: {conjectural}, {divinatory},
       {hypothetical}, {hypothetic}, {supposed}, {suppositional},
       {suppositious}, {supposititious}]
    

Divinatory \Di*vin"a*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. divinatoire.]
   Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory
   instinct." --Cowley.
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50 Moby Thesaurus words for "divinatory":
      anticipant, anticipatory, apocalyptic, augural, auguring,
      clairvoyant, farseeing, farsighted, fatidic, forecasting,
      forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, foretelling,
      forethoughted, forethoughtful, forewarning, fortunetelling,
      haruspical, intuitive, longsighted, mantic, oracular, precognitive,
      precognizant, predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative,
      prefiguring, prepared, presageful, presaging, prescient,
      presignificative, presignifying, prognostic, prognosticative,
      prophetic, provident, providential, prudent, ready, sagacious,
      sibyllic, sibylline, vaticinal, vaticinatory, weather-wise