Definition of divinatory

• resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priests divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
• based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"