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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.

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noun

    A person who foretells future events by or as if by supernatural means: augur, auspex, foreteller, haruspex, prophesier, prophet, prophetess, seer, sibyl, soothsayer, vaticinator. See foresight.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers

 
 
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