divinistre

Middle English

Noun

divinistre

  1. A diviner.
    • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Knight's Tale: 1951-4.
      His spirit chaunged hous, and wente ther
      As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher,
      Therfore I stynte; I nam no divinistre;
      Of soules fynde I nat in this registre

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(See the entry for divinistre in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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