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One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner. [R.] Burton.

Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory instinct." Cowley.

er; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. [Obs.] One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. Bacon.

Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood.

In the manner of a doctor.[R.]

The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.

A female doctor.[R.]

Like a doctor or learned man. [Obs.] "Doctorly prelates." Foxe.

Doctorate. [R.] Clarendon.

One who domesticates.

A ruler or ruling power. "Sole dominator of Navarre." Shak. Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden.

One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.

A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.

rial place. [Obs.] Ayliffe. My sister was interred in a very honorable manner in our dormitory, joining to the parish church. Evelyn.

A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4. Knight. Ductor roller (Printing), the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller. Knight.

An external parasitic organism.

Tending to edification. Bp. Hall.

One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. editorial content

In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article.