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Adjective: divinatory  di'vi-nu,to-ree [N. Amer], di'vi-nu-t(u-)ree [Brit]
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
    "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement";
    - mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical
     
  2. Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
    "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly divinatory";
    - conjectural, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious

See also: prophetic, prophetical, theoretic, theoretical

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