noun
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One who foretells the future.
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One who divines or conjectures.
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One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.
Examples of diviner in a Sentence
Prophesy and traditional divination Many of our respondents acknowledged the similarities between the prophet and the traditional diviner.
A culprit is easily discovered either by an appeal to a local diviner or in torturing some one into confession.
Hilary Barrett is an I Ching diviner, teacher and author.
He retook Kairawan, swept the coast as far as Carthage, which he sacked, expelling the Greek garrisons from all the fortified places; he then turned his arms against the Berbers, who, commanded by the Kahina (Diviner), as the Arabs called their queen, beat him so completely that he was compelled to retreat to Barca.
On the other hand the seer, diviner and prophet is a minister whose function it is to communicate God's will or word to man.
For the prophet's function became in an increasing degree a function of mind, and not merely of traditional routine or mechanical technique, like that of the diviner with his arrows or his lots which he cast in the presence of the ephod or plated Yahweh image.
We may assume that like the practice of the soothsaying priest (the earlier type of priest) and of the Izosem (diviner), so the procedure of the roeh was mechanical and magical in character.
Still a man is not the only organism; and every organism has a soul, whose immediate organ is the spirit (7rvEwµa), a body which - analogous to a body diviner than the four so-called elements, namely the aether, the element of the stars - gives to the organism its nonterrestrial vital heat, whether it be a plant or an animal.