(n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.
(n.) A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
(2) We’re all very upset right now,” said Daniel Ray, 24, in his third year of the divinity master’s degree program.
(3) Back then they claimed a divine right to rule over Afghanistan.
(4) As over-the-top as Ray Lewis often seems in his sermonizing give him this: when football is at its most dramatic it really does at least feel like there's something akin to a divine plan at work.
(5) As Labour has no real polices that I can divine, the idea of making it less testosterone-driven somehow interested me.
(6) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
(7) Baum (a surgeon), Bass (a psychiatrist), Whitehorn (a journalist), and Campbell (a professor of divinity) comment on the case as presented and on three hypothetical complicating situations involving the girl's request for plastic surgery to please her abusive father, the possibility of pregnancy, and physical injury from sexual assault.
(8) It's almost like a divinely inspired Hemingway writing in those parts.
(9) Because he is mad for them and I was like, you do not think they have gone the tiniest bit school run, as in Elle McPherson klaxon, but Mr Karzai was like, when something is a serious classic like a divine Turkman robe or the perfect ankle boot, it can survive any brand damage?
(10) The song is that musical embodiment of bittersweet chemical comedown when you still feel divine but your heart skips a beat and you don't always quite catch your breath."
(11) "But North Korea is not moving towards a collective system: it's all about the one leader … It's the divine right of Kims."
(12) A poor citizen can’t even find one kilogramme of rice on the street,” he said, arguing that the country’s rulers would face divine judgment for what they were doing to the poor.
(13) Everyone knew that if he'd wanted to he could have become professor of divinity at St Andrews, but academia was too dry for him.
(14) On 15 September, business leaders from Bridgeport, Connecticut – a down-at-heel port town on Long Island Sound - gathered just outside town in the Friendship Baptist Church to pray for divine intervention in a matter of business.
(15) So soon afterwards, here was their new leader telling them they had made a cataclysmic error: far from divine, Stalin was satanic.
(16) After World War II, he renounced his divinity and became the symbol of both the state and the unity of the people.
(17) Fuelled by latent ambition (and maybe a bit of that coke), Joan – with the help of some divine Cosgrovian intervention – decided she could turn her hand to producing ads.
(18) I'd get it from a shop called Hanna in Beirut – just divine.
(19) There might be tales of divine intervention (Newton believed doomsday would be in the 21st century, calculated from clues in the Bible), or the idea that a bloody war would end up causing so many casualties that nations would suffer and wither away.
(20) Its method permits access to the subjective, individual aspects of the development of belief and of the relationship to the divinity, as well as to the critical moments of their developmental reorganization.
Soothsayer
Definition:
(n.) One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
(n.) A mantis.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.
(2) Variations in the strength of recovery in different world regions led advertising industry soothsayer Sir Martin Sorrell to grasp for ever stranger soundbites, with the idea of a "LuVVy"-shaped global recovery his most elaborate effort.
(3) Soothsayer or not, he never imagined the pink pound would become legal tender.
(4) But analysts such as Silver, a man dubbed an oracle , a soothsayer and a savant have an interest in continuing to share these predictions.
(5) Thai authorities confirmed on Monday that a colonel in the military was also being investigated in the same inquiry as the soothsayer, but he had absconded.
(6) He thinks we shouldn't get on with cutting waste this year … I don't see him as some economic soothsayer, frankly."
(7) The actor and writer Carrie Fisher has many talents but soothsaying appears not to be among them.
(8) She says: "The soothsayers and tea-leaves readers and the so-called experts can look at coalitions, but our job is to make sure we are offering a big choice for a majority government."
(9) And then when they heard that the crowd had arrived, like a carnival with every malcontent and half-crazed soothsayer following in its wake, Martha went out into the streets to announce her brother's death to my son.
(10) Iain Duncan Smith dismissed “another doom-and-gloom scenario” from an organisation “that simply hasn’t got anything right”; his fellow pro-Brexit MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the OBR had made “lunatic assumptions” and that “experts, soothsayers, astrologers are all in much the same category”.
(11) Thai authorities said Suriyan Sucharitpolwong, better known by his soothsayer name Mor Yong, died of a blood infection on Saturday evening, hours after he was found unconscious in his cell at a Bangkok army barracks.
(12) The so-called “evil cult” has been wreaking havoc countrywide, if state media reports are to be believed – distributing leaflets, soothsaying into megaphones, attacking police stations and extorting “donations” from gullible peasants.
(13) But just as the soothsayers who cook up future prospects from experience of the recent past had got used to peering back into gloom, reality overtook them again, and all the adjustments are now in the other direction.
(14) Google in particular preoccupies advertising's economic soothsayer.
(15) On the evidence of the first 100 days, that’s a question beyond the most talented soothsayer, but as the days pass, maybe word will emerge of a plan.
(16) Experts, soothsayers, astrologers are all in much the same category.” This is classic Rees-Mogg.
(17) Set in the 1920s, it stars Colin Firth as a magician who is sent to France to debunk the practices of Emma Stone's beguiling spiritualist – but the accuracy of her soothsaying and her impressive trickery have his cynicism challenged.
(18) On stage he looks nothing like the laconic soothsayer of a few hours ago; now he's every bit the magnetic frontman, pulling messianic poses with arms outstretched and head flung back.
(19) Turns out the soothsayers were mistaken: the Sun isn't dying, it's expanding.