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Definition of Diviners
1. diviner [n] - See also: diviner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diviners
Literary usage of Diviners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1731)
"... j the Sun in the center has a motion a- augurs or diviners by birds. ' bout his
own A«.is, and about him all Gr. ] the ... Tftc, Gr.l diviners by birds. ..."
2. A Collection of the Chronicles and Ancient Histories of Great Britain, Now by Jehan de Wavrin, William Hardy (1864)
"How King Vortigern took counsel of his diviners concerning his unhappy life; and
concerning the tower which they advised him to build to save ..."
3. Zoroastrian Civilization: From the Earliest Times to the Downfall of the by Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla (1922)
"... the famous diviners of that country.1 The country was full of astrologers,
who took the auspices for those who consulted them on important affairs, ..."
4. Science and Literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob (1878)
"The same historian tells us that the Assyrians had their diviners and augurs, to
watch the flight of the birds and to offer up sacrifices to the unknown ..."
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