Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female diviner or soothsayer; the priestess of an ancient oracle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who divines.
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- noun archaic A
female diviner .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Like the priestesses of Delphi, the miko was in ancient times also a divineress -- a living oracle, uttering the secrets of the future when possessed by the god whom she served.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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At no temple does the miko now act as sibyl, oracular priestess, or divineress.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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From the best authorities, it appears that the Hebrew word, which has been rendered _venefica_ and _witch_, means a poisoner and divineress, a dabbler in spells, or fortune-teller.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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From the best authorities, it appears that the Hebrew word, which has been rendered, venefica, and witch, means a poisoner and divineress -- a dabbler in spells, or fortune-teller.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 Charles Mackay 1851
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This of old was accounted a prefiguration and mystical pointing out of the Pythian divineress, who used always, before the uttering of a response from the oracle, to shake a branch of her domestic laurel.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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a prefiguration and mystical pointing out of the Pythian divineress, who used always, before the uttering of a response from the oracle, to shake a branch of her domestic laurel.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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a prefiguration and mystical pointing out of the Pythian divineress, who used always, before the uttering of a response from the oracle, to shake a branch of her domestic laurel.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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‘citess’, ‘divineress’ (both in Dryden); ‘deaness’ (Sterne);
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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