Divine
adj, name, noun, verb ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
"Poets were the first divines."
- 2 a clergyman or other person in religious orders wordnet
- 3 A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
"December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition."
- 4 God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept. capitalized, often
- 1 To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination. transitive
"a sagacity which divined the evil designs"
- 2 search by divining, as if with a rod wordnet
- 3 To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight. transitive
"no secret can be told To any who divined it not before"
- 4 perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers wordnet
- 5 To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod. transitive
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- 6 To render divine; to deify.
"Living on earth like angel new divined."
- 1 Of or pertaining to a god.
"a divine being"
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of divine. alt-of
"My mind was never in a holier frame, than while I gazed on that untroubled image of Divine rest."
- 3 Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
"divine power"
- 4 Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
"divine skill"
- 5 Beautiful, heavenly.
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- 6 Foreboding; prescient. obsolete
"Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him."
- 7 immortal; elect or saved after death obsolete
"Now Thomas Mowbray do I turne to thee, And marke my greeting well: for what I ſpeake, My body ſhall make good vpon this earth, Or my diuine ſoule anſwer it in heauen."
- 8 Relating to divinity or theology.
"church history and other divine learning"
- 1 being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods wordnet
- 2 emanating from God wordnet
- 3 being or having the nature of a god wordnet
- 4 resulting from divine providence wordnet
- 5 appropriate to or befitting a god wordnet
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- 6 devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity wordnet
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"To err is human, to forgive divine."
Etymology
From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.
Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin dīvīnō.