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Divine
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.
DivineDivine 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. ``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. DivineDivine Di*vine", n. [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a
theologian. See Divine, a.]
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. DivineDivine 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.
Meaning of Divine from wikipedia
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