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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



... she was pale as marble, but how superbly beautiful! Her glossy hair, all disordered, hung in rich masses upon her uncovered shoulders; her seductive night-dress but imperfectly concealed the glories of her divine form,—her heaving bosom, so voluptuous and fair, was more than half disclosed to my gaze. With a palpitating heart I laid my trembling hand upon one of her plump, white shoulders. Never shall I forget the ...
— Venus in Boston; - A Romance of City Life • George Thompson
... drag out an existence among indifferent or hostile people in an alien land. The daughter should never know, never weep when they wept, never pray when they prayed. This was retribution—not his, he only watched in silence the working of divine justice. ...
— Lorraine - A romance • Robert W. Chambers
... of one or two old masters, or once in a while perhaps in flesh and blood, transfiguring the face of some commonplace vulgar woman whom, but for that, nobody would have called beautiful. But sometimes the divine thing chooses some morsel of humanity like Mrs. Nevill Tyson, struggles with and overpowers it, rending the small body, spoiling the delicate beauty; and where you looked for the illuminating triumphant glory of motherhood, you find, as Tyson ...
— The Tysons - (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) • May Sinclair
... theology,—that so many moralists have wrought their system from—Love. The errors thus originated have something in them that charms us even while we smile at the theology, or while we neglect the system. What a beautiful fabric would be human nature—what a divine guide would be human reason—if Love were indeed the stratum of the one, and the inspiration of the other! What a world of reasonings, not immediately obvious, did the sage of old open to our inquiry, when he said the pathetic was the truest part of the ...
— Eugene Aram, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... letters of blood the warning, "Abolish war or perish." Some say the war ended six months too soon, but had it continued that much longer, the probable results are too awful to contemplate. The Angel of Destruction had the sword lifted over Germany, but it was as though divine providence ...
— Birdseye Views of Far Lands • James T. Nichols


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