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divinatory

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divinatory in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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"
    conjectural  divinatory  hypothetical  hypothetic  supposed  suppositional  suppositious  supposititious 
  2. 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"
    divinatory  mantic  sibylline  sibyllic  vatic  vatical 
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