| Divinator | n. [ L. See Divination. ] One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner. [ R. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Divinatory | a. [ Cf. F. divinatoire. ] Professing, or relating to, divination. “A natural divinatory instinct.” Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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| | divinatory | (adj) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy, Syn. mantic, vatical, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, Example: the high priest's divinatory pronouncement; mantic powers; a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions | | booklouse | (n) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers, Syn. book louse, deathwatch, Liposcelis divinatorius | | conjectural | (adj) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence, Syn. supposed, hypothetic, divinatory, hypothetical, suppositional, supposititious, suppositious, Example: theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural; the supposed reason for his absence; suppositious reconstructions of dead languages; hypothetical situation |
| | 八卦 | [bā guà, ㄅㄚ ㄍㄨㄚˋ, 八 卦] the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经; to gossip, See also: 易經, 易经 #8,756 [Add to Longdo] | | 卦 | [guà, ㄍㄨㄚˋ, 卦] divinatory trigram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经, See also: 易經, 易经 #13,811 [Add to Longdo] | | 卦义 | [guà yì, ㄍㄨㄚˋ ㄧˋ, 卦 义 / 卦 義] interpretation of the divinatory trigrams [Add to Longdo] | | 卦辞 | [guà cí, ㄍㄨㄚˋ ㄘˊ, 卦 辞 / 卦 辭] to interpret the divinatory trigrams [Add to Longdo] | | 彖辞 | [tuàn cí, ㄊㄨㄢˋ ㄘˊ, 彖 辞 / 彖 辭] to interpret the divinatory trigrams [Add to Longdo] | | 打卦 | [dǎ guà, ㄉㄚˇ ㄍㄨㄚˋ, 打 卦] to tell sb's fortune using divinatory trigrams [Add to Longdo] |
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