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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



... believe it will be, I should read from the Bible itself the story of the sufferings and death. Can you gather any meaning from this rough outline? It seems to me that it is intended that Wikkey should be led upwards from the human to the Divine. For others a different plan of teaching might be better, but I think this is the right key to his development; and, moreover, I firmly believe that you will be shown ...
— Wikkey - A Scrap • YAM

... sufficed unto Nimrod's evil desire. Not enough that he turned men away from God, he did all he could to make them pay Divine honors unto himself. He set himself up as a god, and made a seat for himself in imitation of the seat of God. It was a tower built out of a round rock, and on it he placed a throne of cedar wood, upon which arose, ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg

... the Hudson, passed their winters there. To this class the Littlepages did not belong; neither their habits nor their fortunes tempting them to so high a flight. For myself, I was taught enough Latin and Greek to enter college, by the Rev. Thomas Worden, an English divine, who was rector of St. Jude's, the parish to which our family properly belonged. This gentleman was esteemed a good scholar, and was very popular among the gentry of the county; attending all the dinners, clubs, races, balls, and other diversions that were given by them, within ...
— Satanstoe • James Fenimore Cooper

... presentation of the facts of the psychic world, and the world of spirit, than by quoting the following words uttered by a faithful laborer in the vineyard of spiritualism: "Spiritualism helps us to understand the 'unity of spirit' and 'the brotherhood of man' in the divine relationship wherein the greatest among us is the servant of all. The possession of great gifts is an added responsibility. We are only stewards of our powers on behalf or others, and our desire to gain knowledge and influence should be vitalized ...
— Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers • Bhakta Vishita

... fortune and old Mr. Tudor, of the Shropshire parsonage, brought Charley Tudor to reside with our two heroes. For the first month, or six weeks, Charley was ruthlessly left by his companions to get through his Sundays as best he could. It is to be hoped that he spent them in divine worship; but it may, we fear, be surmised with more probability, that he paid his devotions at the shrine of some very inferior public-house deity in the neighbourhood of Somerset House. As a matter of course, both Norman ...
— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope


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