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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



... because we did not enter so far into their lives, working with them, suffering heat and cold, hunger and thirst, and almost deadly weariness with them; but none with natural charity could fail to sympathize with them in their love for their calves, and to feel that it in no way differed from the divine mother-love of a woman in thoughtful, self-sacrificing care; for they would brave every danger, giving their lives for their offspring. Nor could we fail to sympathize with their awkward, blunt-nosed baby calves, with such beautiful, wondering eyes looking out on the world ...
— The Story of My Boyhood and Youth • John Muir

... national and individual care, and nurtured as we would nurture a young and tender child. There are many fields of trade which may be said to pertain naturally to this country, and which we have as wholly neglected and yielded to Great Britain, as if she had a divine right to the monopoly of the entire commerce of the world. No one can believe that the trade of the islands which gem the Carribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, or the great Spanish Main, or the Guianas, ...
— Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post • Thomas Rainey

... not come, and glad I was, for it would have doubled my burden in protecting her before I should have been able to force her back again out of harm's way. She must be contemplating some cunning strategy, I thought, and so I fought on secure in the belief that my divine princess ...
— Warlord of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... beauty by time; whose fair face, neither the summer's blaze can scorch, nor winter's blast chap, nor the numbering of years breed altering of colours. Such is my sweet Cynthia, whom time cannot touch, because she is divine, nor will offend because she is delicate. O Cynthia, if thou shouldest always continue at thy fulness, both gods and men would conspire to ravish thee. But thou, to abate the pride of our affections, dost detract from thy perfections; thinking it sufficient if once in a ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

... earth. It is a great source of knowledge, established throughout the three regions of the world. It is possessed by the twice-born both in detailed and compendious forms. It is the delight of the learned for being embellished with elegant expressions, conversations human and divine, and ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli


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