Divine
[dɪ'vaɪn]
Definition
(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' .
Checked by Blanchard--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Mason
Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Checker: Mandy
Definition
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.
Typist: Ruben
Examples
- The fair little face, touched with divine compassion, as it peeped shrinkingly through the grate, was like an angel's in the prison. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- How in the right, and how suspected of being in the wrong, she could not divine. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Most glorious vision of divine loveliness, it is, replied the officer who stood at my side. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Ah, my dear Miss Bart, I am not divine Providence, to guarantee your enjoying the things you are trying to get! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It's not very hard to divine whose friend Mrs Gowan is. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Even to us he assumed gaiety and hope, and assumed them so well, that we did not divine the secret workings of his mind. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Sounds that he was not afraid of, for he divined their meaning, then began to be audible. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- His mother drew near, and looked so earnestly into his eyes, that he at once divined that something unusual was the matter. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The distant light which Eustacia had cursorily observed in leaving the house came, as she had divined, from the cottage window of Susan Nunsuch. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Emma divined what every body present must be thinking. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I divined that my coming had stopped conversation in the room, and that its other occupants were looking at me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I divined that he would be long away. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What is a Divining Rod? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A divining rod is a wand or twig of hazel or willow used especially for discovering metallic deposits or water beneath the earth’s surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They did not now guess at, and totter on the pathway, divining the mode to please, hoping, yet fearing the continuance of bliss. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The divining party again laid their heads together: apparently they could not agree about the word or syllable the scene illustrated. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- William knew her feelings: had he not passed his whole life in divining them? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Of each kind, without doubt, pursued the diviner. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And will he sell his own fairer and diviner part without any compunction to the most godless and foul? Plato. The Republic.
- But her voice is much diviner than anything you have seen of her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Edited by Adrian