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diviner|dɪˈvaɪnə(r)|
Forms: 4–5 devinor, -vynour, dyvynour, 5–7 divinour, 5– diviner.
[ME. and AF. devinour, divinour = OF. devineor, -eour, -ur (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), agent-n. from F. deviner to divine, corresponding to L. dīvīnātōr-em divinator. Down to 1500 regularly stressed ˌdeviˈnour, ˈdeviˌnour. In sense 2, app. f. F. devin, divin n.: cf. philosoph-er.]
1. One who practises divination; a soothsayer, prophet, seer; a magician, sorcerer.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8107 Þus seide alle my dyuinours. 1382Wyclif Deut. xviii. 10 Ne be foundun in thee..that askith dyvynours. 1388― Jer. xxvii. 9 Dyuyneris by chiteryng and fleyng of briddis. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 234 b/2 The deuynour had told hym that he shold deye within fyue dayes. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. v. (R.) He fled to his wyse men of the worlde, to his diuiners and charmers. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 649 The..Divinour or Prophet of the Britans, I mean Merlin. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. 238 The People's Pray'r, the glad Diviner's Theme, The Young men's Vision and the Old men's Dream! 1723Pope Odyss. i. 524 Vain diviner's dreams divert her fears. 1860Hook Lives Abps. (1869) I. v. 223 The bishops..were required..to banish..diviners and fortune-tellers. 1881Folk-lore Record IV. 106 Very lately an eminent man..employed a diviner to look for mines on his property with a divining rod.
b. A successful conjecturer or guesser.
1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. i. (1695) 48 He must be a notable Diviner of Thoughts, that can assure him, that he was thinking. 1856–61Maurice Critics in Friendship Bks. xiii. (1874) 377 Richard Bentley was one of the subtlest diviners of the meaning of obscure passages.
†2. A divine, a theologian. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 452 Þe doughtiest doctour and deuynoure of þe trinitee Was augustyn þe olde. Ibid. xiii. 114 Sire doctour..What is dowel and dobet? ȝe deuynours knoweth. 1393Ibid. C. xvi. 85 This doctor and diuinour and decretistre of canon. 1552Huloet, Diuinour or wryter of holy scripture, agiographus.
†b. = divine n.2 2 b; also, a wise man, sage.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 65 Thales..þis naturel philosofer and dyuynour. a1400–50Alexander 1545 Doctours & diuinours & othire dere maistris. |