'Divine' definitions:

Definition of 'divine'

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adjective
Emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black or white...satanic or godly"-Saturday Review [syn: divine, godly]
adjective
Resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation" [syn: providential, divine]
adjective
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 [syn: divine, godlike]
adjective
Devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy"
adjective
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 [syn: divine, godlike]
adjective
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" [syn: divine, elysian, inspired]
noun
Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah]
noun
A clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn: cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic]
verb
Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
verb
Search by divining, as if with a rod; "He claimed he could divine underground water"

Definition of 'Divine'

From: GCIDE
  • Divine \Di*vine"\, a. [Compar. Diviner; superl. Divinest.] [F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. ?, and L. deus, God. See Deity.]
  • 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." --Paley. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. "The divine Apollo said." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. --Sir J. Davies. "The divine Desdemona." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. --Prov. xvi. 10. [1913 Webster]
  • But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given. --Gray. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Relating to divinity or theology. [1913 Webster]
  • Church history and other divine learning. --South.
  • Syn: Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; pre["e]minent. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Divine'

From: GCIDE
  • Divine \Di*vine"\, v. i.
  • 1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. [1913 Webster]
  • The prophets thereof divine for money. --Micah iii. 11. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding. [1913 Webster]
  • Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Divine'

From: GCIDE
  • Divine \Di*vine"\, n. [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See Divine, a.]
  • 1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. "Poets were the first divines." --Denham. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. [1913 Webster]
  • The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. --J. Woodbridge. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Divine'

From: GCIDE
  • Divine \Di*vine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divined; p. pr. & vb. n. Divining.] [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See Divination.]
  • 1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. [1913 Webster]
  • A sagacity which divined the evil designs. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To foretell; to predict; to presage. [1913 Webster]
  • Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Living on earth like angel new divined. --Spenser.
  • Syn: To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'divine'

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Words containing 'Divine'