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diviner
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diviner \Di*vin"er\, n. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. --Zech. x. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 One who foretells the future. 2 One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod. n. 1 One who foretells the future. 2 One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers
Usage examples of diviner.
Is there not hope for democracy if in the places of its greatest strain and stress, in the midst of its fiercest passions, there is a deliberate, affectionate, intelligent striving toward cities that have been revealed not in apocalyptic vision but in the long-studied plans of terrestrial architects and engineers and altruistic souls, such as that of Jane Addams, cities that to such amphionic music shall out of the shards of the past build themselves silently, impregnably--if not in a diviner clime, at any rate in a diviner spirit--on shores and slopes and plains of that broad valley of the new democracy, conterminous in its mountain boundaries with New France in America?
There only toward death, which means: tossed in layers, with a few leaves and hollow beechnuts on top, lest the crows, or if foxes should come, the forester, diviners, vultures, treasure seekers, witches, if there are any, gather fetuses, make tallow candles out of them or powder to strew across thresholds ointments for everything and nothing.
Tristan Steward, the regent of Roland, Miraz, the Diviner of the Hintervold, Viedekam, one of the chieftains of the Nonaligned States, and Beliac, the King of Golgarn, whose borders backed up to his own on the far eastern side of the Teeth, had brought enormous retinues with them as well.
Their gallant riders, while they check their pride, Like shapes of some diviner element Than English air, and beings nobler than The envious and admiring multitude.
Intellection seems to have been given as an aid to the diviner but weaker beings, an eye to the blind.
They are, in fact, contributing to make him a wiser, a stronger, a better, a happier, and in all respects, a completer, and a diviner being than he otherwise would be.
For Thou who knowest, Lord, how soon Our weak heart clings, Hast given us joys, tender and true, Yet all with wings, So that we see, gleaming on high, Diviner things!
Christian Scientists, psycho-analysts, electronic vibration diviners, therapeutists of all schools registered and unregistered, astrologers, astronomers who tell us that the sun is nearly a hundred million miles away and the Betelgeuse is ten times as big as the whole universe, physicists who balance Betelgeuse by describing the incredible smallness of the atom, and a host of other marvel mongers whose credulity would have dissolved the Middle Ages in a roar of sceptical merriment.
I value for myself and friends the administration of the chrismal sacrament with the diviner flow from that low sand-hill in Western Georgia.
How much more would I value for myself and friends the administration of the chrismal sacrament with the diviner flow from that low sand-hill in Western Georgia.
The Diviners stood in a little group at her right, the others were scattered around the spacious emptiness, close to the high seat.
Two of the Diviners threw themselves upon the crystal, shielding it with their bodies.
They were young, these student Diviners, and their teachers were old, and all were unused to combat.
The Diviners said that I would bring more blood to the House of the Mother.
Then she went with her chief Diviner through long, dim corridors past monastic quarters where young Diviners were trainedso few of them now, she thought, so very few, with how many deserted chambers on all sidesto the place where the Eye of the Mother was kept, in the great Hall of the Diviners.