Divinatory - Definition

adj 1: 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" [syn: divinatory,
mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical]
2: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence;
"theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly
conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence";
"suppositious reconstructions of dead languages";
"hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory,
hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional,
suppositious, supposititious]