Divine

[dɪ'vaɪn]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) search by divining, as if with a rod; 'He claimed he could divine underground water'.

(verb.) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers.

(adj.) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; 'her pies were simply divine'; 'the divine Shakespeare'; 'an elysian meal'; 'an inspired performance' .

(adj.) emanating from God; 'divine judgment'; 'divine guidance'; 'everything is black or white...satanic or godly'-Saturday Review .

(adj.) being or having the nature of a god; 'the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers'-J.G.Frazier; 'the divine will'; 'the divine capacity for love'; ''Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create'-J.G.Saxe .

(adj.) appropriate to or befitting a god; 'the divine strength of Achilles'; 'a man of godlike sagacity'; 'man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers'-R.H.Roveref .

(adj.) devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; 'divine worship'; 'divine liturgy' .

布兰卡德錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.

(a.) Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.

(a.) Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.

(a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.

(a.) 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.

(a.) Presageful; foreboding; prescient.

(a.) Relating to divinity or theology.

(a.) One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

(a.) A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

(v. t.) To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.

(v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to presage.

(v. t.) To render divine; to deify.

(v. i.) To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.

(v. i.) To have or feel a presage or foreboding.

(v. i.) To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.

編輯:梅森

同義詞及近義詞：

a. [1]. God-like, superhuman.[2]. Sacred, holy, spiritual, heavenly.

n. [1]. Minister, priest, clergyman, pastor, parson, ecclesiastic, churchman.[2]. Theologian.

v. a. Predict, foretell, presage, prognosticate, vaticinate, prophesy.

v. n. Conjecture, surmise, guess, suppose, believe, fancy, think, suspect.

錄入:曼蒂

解釋/意思:

adj. belonging to or proceeding from God: devoted to God's service: holy: sacred: excellent in the highest degree.—n. one skilled in divine things: a minister of the gospel: a theologian.—v.t. to foresee or foretell as if divinely inspired: to guess or make out.—v.i. to profess or practise divination: to have forebodings.—ns. Divinā′tion the act or practice of divining: instinctive prevision: prediction: conjecture; Div′inātor Divīn′er one who divines or professes divination: a conjecturer:—fem. Divin′eress.—adjs. Divinatō′rial Divin′a-tory relating to divination conjectural.—adv. Divine′ly.—ns. Divine′ness; Divin′ing-rod a rod usually of hazel used by those professing to discover water or metals under ground.—vs.t. Div′inise Divin′ify to treat as divine.

校對:鲁本