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Divine

//dɪˈvaɪn// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a god.

    "a divine being"

  2. 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. 3
    Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

    "divine power"

  4. 4
    Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.

    "divine skill"

  5. 5
    Beautiful, heavenly.
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  1. 6
    Foreboding; prescient. obsolete

    "Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him."

  2. 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."

  3. 8
    Relating to divinity or theology.

    "church history and other divine learning"

Adjective
  1. 1
    being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods wordnet
  2. 2
    emanating from God wordnet
  3. 3
    being or having the nature of a god wordnet
  4. 4
    resulting from divine providence wordnet
  5. 5
    appropriate to or befitting a god wordnet
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  1. 6
    devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

    "Poets were the first divines."

  2. 2
    a clergyman or other person in religious orders wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept. capitalized, often
Verb
  1. 1
    To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination. transitive

    "a sagacity which divined the evil designs"

  2. 2
    search by divining, as if with a rod wordnet
  3. 3
    To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight. transitive

    "no secret can be told To any who divined it not before"

  4. 4
    perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers wordnet
  5. 5
    To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod. transitive
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  1. 6
    To render divine; to deify.

    "Living on earth like angel new divined."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.

Etymology 2

From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.

Etymology 3

Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin dīvīnō.

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