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Divine   /dɪvˈaɪn/   Listen
adjective
Divine  adj.  
1.
Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature."
2.
Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection."
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."
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. "The divine Desdemona." "A divine sentence is in the lips of the king." "But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given."
6.
Presageful; foreboding; prescient. (Obs.) "Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him."
7.
Relating to divinity or theology. "Church history and other divine learning."
Synonyms: Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preeminent.


noun
Divine  n.  
1.
One skilled in divinity; a theologian. "Poets were the first divines."
2.
A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. "The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition."


verb
Divine  v. t.  (past & past part. divined; pres. part. divining)  
1.
To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. "A sagacity which divined the evil designs."
2.
To foretell; to predict; to presage. "Darest thou... divine his downfall?"
3.
To render divine; to deify. (Obs.) "Living on earth like angel new divined."
Synonyms: To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.


Divine  v. i.  
1.
To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. "The prophets thereof divine for money."
2.
To have or feel a presage or foreboding. "Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts."
3.
To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.





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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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