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divinatory

ADJECTIVE
  1. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
    suppositious reconstructions of dead languages
    hypothetical situation
    the supposed reason for his absence
    theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural
  2. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
    a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
    mantic powers
    the high priest's divinatory pronouncement

How To Use divinatory In A Sentence

  • As I studied the divinatory meanings, I looked at the image of the card, and associated it with a culture.
  • Thus in 1495 Pico della Mirandola dismissed divinatory astrology as a confusion of real physical planets with stellar divinities.
  • To do so, this thesis first etymologizes "Image", then studies its development of meaning: from original meaning "elephant" to divinatory symbols , then to imagination, as well as Image.
  • In the ancient book, I Ching, when explaining a certain divinatory symbol the dragon is associated with young bamboo.
  • For example, "Sunbrother" (real name Zhang Kunbo), who attended the meeting, offers counseling that promises to take clients on a journey "from psychology to the I Ching," an ancient divinatory text.
  • There, before a sea of TV cameras, he shook a container of divinatory sticks until one fell out that told the city's fortune. Some See a Rat in the Year of the Ox
  • He followed that with Oracle of Geomancy and Terrestrial Astrology which has become the standard work on Western divinatory geomancy.
  • In my view so far, the purpose of this model by its creator ended at combining these divinatory practices together into a single model as a brief artistic statement of how these practices are connected by way of uncovering the future, but we're no doubt asking too much of the model to provide us with signs of their interrelationships on top of this. Finding structure in the Piacenza Liver despite academic claptrap - Part 3
  • the high priest's divinatory pronouncement
  • There is no shred of doubt that their set of divinatory beliefs are related and we also know that the Babylonian pantheon is rich and complex too. Archive 2007-02-01
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