divinistre
Middle English
Noun
divinistre
- 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
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Knight's Tale: 1951-4.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for divinistre in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)