Word Meanings - DIVINATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory instinct." Cowley.

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• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• INSTINCTION
  Instinct; incitement; inspiration. Sir T. Elyot.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• INSTINCT
  Urged or sas, birds instinct with life. The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton. A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham. (more info) instigate, incite;
• PROFESSEDLY
  By profession.
• INSTINCTIVITY
  The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct. Coleridge.
• PROFESS
  or nun), L. professus, p. p. of profiteri to profess; pro before, 1. To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely. "Hear me profess sincerely." Shak.
• PROFESSOR
  1. One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. "Professors
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• PROFESSORSHIP
  The office or position of a professor, or public teacher. Walton.
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• NATURALNESS
  The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
• RELATRIX
  A female relator.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• IRRELATIVE
  Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• DISPROFESS
  To renounce the profession or pursuit of. His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. Spenser.