Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Diviner"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Diviner \Di*vin"er\, n.
1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict
events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.

The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false
dreams; they comfort in vain. --Zech. x. 2.

2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things.
--Locke.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

diviner
n : someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid
of supernatural powers


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