English Dictionary: Divine | by the DICT Development Group |
5 results for Divine | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Divine \Di*vine"\, a. [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. [bd]The immensity of the divine nature.[b8] --Paley. 2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. [bd]Divine protection.[b8] --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. [bd]The divine Apollo said.[b8] --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. [bd]The divine Desdemona.[b8] --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[89]minent. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Divine \Di*vine"\, v. i. 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Divine \Di*vine"\, n. [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See {Divine}, a.] 1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. [bd]Poets were the first divines.[b8] --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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Divine \Di*vine"\, v. t. [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. |