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English Dictionary: divine by the DICT Development Group
5 results for divine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
divine
adj
  1. emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black or white...satanic or godly"-Saturday Review
    Synonym(s): divine, godly
  2. resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation"
    Synonym(s): providential, divine
  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
    Synonym(s): divine, 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
    Synonym(s): divine, godlike
  6. being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"
    Synonym(s): divine, elysian, inspired
n
  1. terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah]
  2. a clergyman or other person in religious orders
    Synonym(s): cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic
v
  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 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.
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