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Definition: Divinatory |
DivinatoryAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "divinatory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Divinatory \Di*vin"a*to*ry\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression divinatoire.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DivinatorySynonyms: mantic (adj), sibyllic (adj), sibylline (adj), vatic (adj), vatical (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Divinatory |
| English words defined with "divinatory": mantic ♦ sibyllic, sibylline ♦ vatic, vatical. (references) |
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| "Divinatory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Divinatory" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "divinatory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 卦 (divinatory trigram). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ivinatoryday | ||||
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"Divinatory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dibinatory, divinator. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-n-o-r-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: vanitory. | |
-3 letters: aridity, avidity, diatron, dinitro, tardyon, vitrain. | |
-4 letters: adroit, aroint, aroynt, avidin, dainty, inroad, nitrid, notary, ordain, ration, trivia, vanity, viator, virion, viroid, votary. | |
-5 letters: adorn, aroid, atony, avion, avoid, dairy, danio, davit, diary, dinar, dirty, divan, divot, dorty, drain, droit, idiot, indri, intro, invar, iodin, irony, ivory, nadir, nitid, nitro, noria, oidia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-n-o-r-t-v-y" | |
+1 letter: vindicatory. | |
+4 letters: providentially. | |
+5 letters: dorsiventrality. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 76 69 6E 61 74 6F 72 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ...- .. -. .- - --- .-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i v i n a t o r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0076 0069 006E 0061 0074 006F 0072 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758875806786818491 |
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