divinatory

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The games were partly, sometimes wholly, diversional, but generally they were in large part divinatory, and thus reflected the hazardous occupations and low culture-status of the people.

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  1. Pertaining to a divinator or to divination; divining. We have seen such places before; we have visited them in that divinatory glance which strays away into space for a moment over the top of a suggestive book. H. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 308.

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  • Nor had tea leaves, nor consultation of the Book of Jagged Lines , nor the divinatory guts of his salmon dinner. —  FSFMagazine,August2007
  • Musical instruments (a delicate harp, ivory clapper and sistrum or rattle) and other religious objects, all related to divinatory and animal cultic rituals, are included in the museum's revelatory presentation. —  Egyptology News
  • What the New Age movement has managed to do is turn Tarot cards (which have a history going back hundreds of years) into a divinatory version of Happy Families. —  totse.com
  • Despite this, the English-speaking world pays more attention to the divinatory meanings of the cards, which will be tackled in the next area. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • It is also important to note that tarot cards are not purely divinatory devices. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. = French divinatoire = Spanish Portuguese Italian divinatorio, from Late Latin *divinatorius, from divinator: see divinator.
 

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