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6 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Divine \Di*vine"\, adjective [Compar. {Diviner}; superl. {Divinest}.] [F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. ?, and L. deus, God. See {Deity}.]
1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. ''The immensity of the divine nature.'' --Paley.
2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. ''Divine protection.'' --Bacon.
3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. ''The divine Apollo said.'' --Shak.
5. Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. --Sir J. Davies. ''The divine Desdemona.'' --Shak.
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. --Prov. xvi. 10.
But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given. --Gray.
6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.]
Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him. --Milton.
7. Relating to divinity or theology.
Church history and other divine learning. --South.
Syn: Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; pre["e]minent.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Divine \Di*vine"\, noun [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See {Divine}, adjective]
1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. ''Poets were the first divines.'' --Denham.
2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. --J. Woodbridge.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Divine \Di*vine"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Divined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Divining}.] [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See {Divination}.]
1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
A sagacity which divined the evil designs. --Bancroft.
2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.
Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? --Shak.
3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.]
Living on earth like angel new divined. --Spenser.
Syn: To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Divine \Di*vine"\, verb (used without an object)
1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
The prophets thereof divine for money. --Micah iii. 11.
2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. --Shak.
3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
divine
adjective
1: emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black1 or white...satanic or godlyt"-Saturday Rev. [syn: {godly}]
2: resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation" [syn: {providential}]
3: being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine capacity for love"; "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create"-J.G.Saxe [syn: {godlike}]
4: devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy"
5: appropriate to or befitting a god; "the divine strength of Achilles"; "a man of godlike sagacity"; "man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers"-R.H.Roveref [syn: {godlike}]
6: of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance" [syn: {elysian}, {inspired}]
noun
1: terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: {Godhead}, {Lord}, {Creator}, {Maker}, {God Almighty}, {Almighty}, {Jehovah}]
2: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn: {cleric}, {churchman}, {ecclesiastic}]
verb
1: perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
2: search by divining, as if with a rod; "He claimed he could divine underground water"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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