Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the power of interpreting dreams, or pretending to judge of future events as signified by dreams.
  • noun An interpreter of dreams; one who judges what is signified by dreams.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An interpreter of dreams.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the interpretation of dreams.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An interpreter of dreams.
  • adjective Of or relating to the interpretation of dreams.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek ὀνειροκριτικός (oneirokritikos, "fit for interpreting dreams"), from ὄνειρος (oneiros, "dream") + κριτικός (kritikos, "fit for judging"), from κριτής (kritēs, "judge").

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Examples

  • In Judaic tradition one of the principal diviners had been the prophet and oneirocritic (dream-interpreter)

    ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

  • 'That is a question,' he said, 'to put to your astrologer, your oneirocritic, your genethliac.

    Veranilda George Gissing 1880

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