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Divine   /dɪvˈaɪn/   Listen
Divine

adjective
1.
Emanating from God.  Synonym: godly.  "Divine guidance" , "Everything is black or white...satanic or godly"
2.
Resulting from divine providence.  Synonym: providential.  "A providential visitation"
3.
Being or having the nature of a god.  Synonym: godlike.  "The divine will" , "The divine capacity for love" , "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create"
4.
Devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity.  "Divine liturgy"
5.
Appropriate to or befitting a god.  Synonym: godlike.  "A man of godlike sagacity" , "Man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers"
6.
Being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods.  Synonyms: elysian, inspired.  "The divine Shakespeare" , "An elysian meal" , "An inspired performance"
noun
1.
Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God.  Synonyms: Almighty, Creator, God Almighty, Godhead, Jehovah, Lord, Maker.
2.
A clergyman or other person in religious orders.  Synonyms: churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic.
verb
(past & past part. divined; pres. part. divining)
1.
Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers.
2.
Search by divining, as if with a rod.



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"Divine" Quotes from Famous Books



... of which alone, for mortals, happiness can spring. And the old Hindoo mythology, which is far deeper in its simplicity than the later idealistic pessimism, expresses this beautifully by giving to every god his other half; the supreme instance of which dualism is the divine Pair, the Moony-crested god and his inseparable other half, the Daughter of the Snow: so organically symbolised that they coalesce indistinguishably into one: the Arddanari, the Being half Male half ...
— The Substance of a Dream • F. W. Bain
... therefore remember that, if I infringe the Divine order, I can turn the sacramental cup into a vehicle of moral poison and spiritual blight. "They must be holy who bear the vessels of ...
— My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year • John Henry Jowett
... poets to adopt whatever style they pleased. Where all the doors stand wide open, there is no object in escaping; where there is but one door, and that one barred, it is human nature to fret for some violent means of evasion. How divine have been the methods of the Victorian ...
— Victorian Songs - Lyrics of the Affections and Nature • Various
... fixed law relating to growth in existence, an inviolable divine idea running through it all. It was now leading him and his fellows into the fire, and when they advanced, no one must stay behind. No class of the community had yet advanced with so bright and great a call; they were going to put an end forever ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... the modern Quakers should be blinded by bales of cotton, heaped up between their souls and the divine light, is not remarkable; for cotton is an impervious material. But it is a strange anomaly in their history that any one among them should have considered himself guided by the Spirit to undertake the especial mission of discouraging sympathy with the enslaved. ...
— Isaac T. Hopper • L. Maria Child


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